The article discusses how Elon Musk is effectively transforming the U.S. government, despite the right's vocal disdain for technocracy. It highlights a contradiction where conservative factions, represented by the MAGA movement, critique expert-driven governance while simultaneously supporting Musk's engineer-centric vision for a utopian state. This mindset echoes historical ideas from Henri de Saint-Simon, who advocated for technocrats to lead society towards efficiency and progress—an irony since the MAGA movement positions itself against the very concept of technocracy.
Elon Musk is dismantling the civil service and fulfilling an old dream of a master engineer applying efficiency to modern societal messiness, despite conservative backlash.
Even as the right purports to loathe technocracy, it has empowered Musk to radically remake the American state in the name of efficiency, a discordant reality.
The MAGA movement decries the tyranny of experts while simultaneously enabling an engineer's vision of utopia, highlighting a contradiction in their ideological stance.
Saint-Simon envisioned engineers usurping the aristocracy, guiding society towards efficiency and harmony—ghostly echoes in Musk's influence over contemporary governance.
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