What is the greatest obstacle to the advent of Technocracy?
It would be difficult to pick out any single obstacle and label it as the greatest one, for there are several contenders for this dubious distinction. Certainly apathy rates high. Shortly before his death, Howard Scott, Technocracy’s founder and long time Director-in-Chief, stated that “Never in the history of human affairs has mankind been so unprepared for what it has to face.” The saddest part about this lack of preparation is that most people seem not to realize how unprepared they are, nor do they even care. Another obstacle is the opposition of the corporate owners of wealth who feel their prestige and power threatened by the pronouncements of Technocracy, even though this organization has simply predicted future probabilities on the basis of examination of developing trends. To blame Technocracy in this case is akin to blaming a clinical thermometer for recording fever, or blaming a barometer for forecasting a disastrous hurricane. In one sense the greatest deterrent is the lack
