A Technocracy Movement That Was Successful

Population Crisis?
From an article in the Spectator

The American government has declined to release the results of the 1970 Census.

Their statement gave as the reason that the census was conducted according to scientific and rational methods which could not be comprehended by the untrained. This evasion was noted.

Reports from within the country indicate an ageing of the population and hint at a decline in total numbers.

Relationships are messy and irrational. So why not instead grow humans from rationally- and scientifically-selected gene-stock in CPTS labs?
 
The Problem of Alaska

The Territory of Alaska is a difficult problem for the CPTS.

While their policies of urbanisation and the termination of the production of firearms have been effective in the forty-eight contiguous states, in Alaska, such measures are less than feasible.

The population is thinly spread. Some consolidation has taken place in the capital of Juneau, and in some of the cities on the southern coast. However, there is a vast territory inhabited by a mixture of American settlers, Red Indians, and Eskimos. The CPTS official in his Official Grey Suit is an anomaly there. The NHS has found that their sterilisation programme has resulted in threats from armed locals. Incursions by the Technical Police and the SWAT have proven less than useful. The dirigibles of the Dirigible Service crash in bad weather, the few aeroplanes and autogyros suited for service break down in the cold.

The policy of the federal government, therefore, has turned to "writing off" the back country, ignoring it and presuming the population will die off or come in to be "rationalised".

Instead, the peoples of the northern regions of the territory have effectively severed themselves from the American government. They conduct trade with Canadian merchants in British Columbia and the Yukon territory, selling gold, hardwoods, various furs, and other such materials. The Hudson's Bay Company has revived the fur trade and its stores in the area are flourishing.

The people in this region do not have access to the American Rational Bank system. The currency is, therefore, the Canadian dollar.

There are intermittent patrols by the Technical Police along the border wire, but any new stretch of wire that they put up is speedily cut. In fact, many American settlements, particularly those nearest the border, have facilities for the RCMP.

As Hawai'i has become a Japanese dependency, so has northern Alaska become a Canadian one. The American government has intermittently protested, but the Canadian government has "taken the matter under consideration".
 
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A Health Problem

A paper published in the British Medical Journal advanced a complex thesis to explain the general listlessness of the American population. The paper was a multidisciplinary work, requiring input from a number of fields of endeavour.

To begin with, in the forties the eugenic sterialisation policies of the American National Health Service began to become known among the seasonal worker population. They were refusing to go to the States because if they fell ill they would either die or be sterialised. This was a discouragement to the cultivation of labour-intensive crops such as almonds.

The shift to non-convertible Energy Certificates in the fifties meant a drying-up of imports. The American menu no longer included bananas for example.

In the sixties, after a Presidential speech stating that the keeping of domestic animals was irrational, since it caused people to invest emotional attachments to such, the keeping of domestic dogs and cats for agricultural purposes, such as protection against predators, declined. The American university system had already restricted veterinary education; it was now abolished.

However, the greatest shock came in 1971, when President Witt made a speech regarding "energy-efficient foods". He stated that it was highly inefficient in terms of energy production to eat meat, or as he put it, "wastefully process nutrients through animal consumption".

This resulted in a massive slaughter of meat animals, as the prices offered their producers were drastically lowered. This had some immediate secondary effects.

Americans then and now had to rely on artificial leather for shoes. This artificial leather was of poor quality and wore out quickly.

Similarly, winter garments were now made of synthetic fabrics instead of wool. Many of these were not only inadequate, they were hazardous, sometimes being readily inflammable.

And relevantly to this topic, the vegetarian substances that replaced meat and milk were inadequate in nutrient content. Many infants died due to inadequate soymilk, for example.

Deprived of the proper nutrients for a healthy life, the American worker is constantly tired and dull-minded. This leads to accidents on the job, and by way of contrast, to a lack of ability to challenge the system.

Research since then has striven to improve the nutriciousness of the foods available to Americans. Yet some food nutrients are simply irreplaceable.
 
This exercise reminds me of the late great John Reilly's review of Anno Dracula:

The serious alternative history point is this: what effect does an obviously eccentric but non-socialist government have on a major power's economic performance? If the Scientologists came to power in Germany, say, or a group like Aum Shin Rikyo in Japan (assuming it did so peacefully), what effect would it have that have on savings and investment? Would you put 10-year money into a country run by Lyndon LaRouche? Historical analogies are welcome.
 
Sidebar: The Soviet Union

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1955 was often held to have been inevitable. Other researchers, though, cite it as a proof of the influence of one individual on history.

Such was Stalin, born Joseb Bessarion Dzu Gashvili in Sakartvelo. His rise to power in the Bolshevik authority was made possible by his control of the party bureaucracy and his cunning ability to forge temporary alliances, and by 1929 he was in absolute control of the country and the party.

The first signs of his efforts became obvious in the early nineteen-thirties. On the national level, Stalin’s policies called for consolidation of farms. In this effort, hundreds of thousands of more-productive farmers were arrested and deported or executed, and the entire Soviet Republic of Ukraine devastated by an artificial famine.

The next step was his turning against the other leaders of the by-then Communist Party. In a series of dramatically staged trials, the surviving Bolshevik leaders accused themselves of having always been agents of Tsarism, Capitalism, and foreign governments, having always worked to overthrow Soviet Power, for which they were all executed.

This effort diffused downwards. Senior party members, administrators, industrial managers, and military officers were deported to prison camps to be worked to death, or merely shot. The result of all this was to make the administration of the country less capable.

By the nineteen-forties, the series of purge trials had essentially eliminated all of the other leaders of the Revolution. Similarly, the higher leadership of the Party ceased to exist. It is estimated that by the time of Stalin’s death in 1952, fewer than a hundred members of the Communist Party from prior to the revolution were left alive, and the majority of them had defected to capitalist countries.

The series of purges cast up some extraordinary figures. After the trial of NKVD chairman Lavrenti Beria (who confessed to having always been an agent of British and Turkish intelligence and a plotter for the restoration of capitalism in Sakartvelo) the turnover in chairmen of the security apparatus was constant, with the average NKVD chairman having a term of seven months.

The final People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs was the notorious David I. Borov, a Young Communist League activist. He became People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs at the age of twenty-two, and launched another sweeping purge of the higher ranks of the Communist Party. A foreign journalist in Moscow commented, “Whenever Borov’s smirky face, with its chin cocked up so arrogantly, made an appearance in a ministry, the Angel of Death seemed to follow.”

After Stalin’s death, Borov was shot, removed from office, and tried.

But it was too late. The Soviet Union was already becoming broken up, due to the constant turnover of administrators. Industry was failing, with skilled engineers, or even half-skilled engineers, being denounced as “wreckers” and shot on a regular basis. The giant collective farms produced less grain per hundred-square-kilometre farm than a small English farm would produce. The armed forces could not maneuver, or in most cases, even leave barracks, as a unit of ten thousand men, designated a division, would have perhaps three officers total, and they would be denounced as bonapartists and wreckers and shot within the week.

By 1955 there was no organised government in the territories of the Soviet Union; only bandit gangs of various strengths, living by looting. The neighbouring countries have been forced to increase their border patrols to prevent the bandits for heading where there are fresh fields of endeavour.
 
The Collapse of the United States

Most nations that collapse do so because of revolution. Failing that, the cause could be massive disaster. What does it say about a country when it collapses because of a petty disaster?

On January 7, 1991, a fire destroyed the switching station of the Internal Network in Washington, D.C. This controlled all communications east of the Mississippi River.

Repairs could not proceed because the parts were unavailable. The maintenance procedure of the Internal Network (and in fact of the entire industry of the country) had been shifted to a supply procedure called “Just in Time”, in which replacement parts were manufactured and delivered based on records of their installation. This method was pronounced a “rational allocation of manufacturing resources.”

As a result there were almost no parts available to repair the destroyed equipment. Furthermore it was not possible to obtain more, since the only means of reporting and requesting them was over the Internal Network, and the system had not been designed with alternative connexions.

The eastern half of the United States suddenly had no communications. Travel was severely handicapped, since the Interurban System was controlled through the Internal Network.

The means of conducting economic transactions was through the Internal Network. Buying and selling, paying for labour, were gravely hampered if such transactions were even possible.

Evacuation of the populations of cities was not feasible. The population density had become skewed between densely-populated urban areas and almost empty rural land. There were no facilities for building refugee camps.

Millions of Americans starved. More died in riots, attempting to obtain food from nonexistent stockpiles. Many more died fleeing cities for farmland.

The President, Arthur Nelson, left on the Airship Service dirigible ZL-152 for Denver. According to diplomatic sources, he stated that he planned to establish a new capital in Denver, “a more central urban area, better suited to administration.” The dirigible also took his vice-president and most of the cabinet.

The ZL-152 iced up in a snowstorm and made a forced landing in Missouri. Two of the crew attempted to reach a farming administrative centre; one survived and before he died gave directions. The staff could not get to the crash site for several days and when they did there were no survivors.

Two cabinet members, Nicholas Hopson, a biologist and Secretary of Commerce, and Albert Wade, a chemical engineer and Secretary of Labor, attempted to drive to Philadelphia in a Dymaxion Car to take the Interurban Railway to Denver. Their vehicle disappeared along the way.

Relief efforts began immediately. The 2nd Expeditionary Brigade, Royal Marines, landed in Boston. They occupied the city and sent urgent requests for food shipments. Similar events occurred in Detroit and Seattle, where Canadian militia units crossed the border to restore order, and in San Francisco, where the Japanese Honolulu Special Naval Landing Force landed.

A conference of the Council for Progress through Science was held in Denver in March. The conference named Charles Poyer (an astrophysicist and former SBI Director) as Acting Chief Executive. ACE Poyer stated that the incursions (which had been augmented by a second British landing in Florida and the arrival of the German 3. Marineinfanteriebrigade, which landed on Long Island at the Ardmore Navigational Station) were “contrary to CPTS policy” and ordered the foreign troops to leave.

At present the NATO alliance of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Benelux countries, and Italy controls about half the Eastern Seaboard, while Canadian troops patrol the American midwest and Pacific Northwest, and the Japanese and other Co-Prosperity Sphere nations control areas in California. The CPTS administration in Denver has tenuous control over the internal areas of the country, mostly through inertia.

The revival of America will be an expensive and prolonged process.
 
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The Revival of the United Stateses

Among the confusing events of geopolitics today is the existence of two distinct entities both calling themselves "The United States of America". This is one of the more bewildering consequences of the disastrous rule of the Council for Progress Through Science. The two countries are often referred to, informally, as the United States of America (NATO) and the United States of America (CPTS).

The USA(NATO) was formally refounded in 1992, when the occupying administrations of the various NATO nations held new elections under the provisions of the American Constitution of 1789 as amended until 1936. The elections created a government with the same political structures as had existed then.

The new President was Lawson Blenheim, a former small businessman who had fled to Newfoundland in 1966. He was sworn in on the established inauguration date of January 20, 1993. His address to the American public was heartening, if poorly received, due to the lack of wireless receivers and televisions, which were still beyond the incomes of the American people in the NATO zone. Most of the people who heard the speech did so at functions established by relief agencies.

One of the first acts of the new American Congress was to confirm the emergency regulations issued by the occupying authorities banning the CPTS. The new government set about re-establishing civil governance and taking over operations from the various occupying troops and agencies.

The rebuilding of America was an arduous task. The economy had been devastated by the results of the CPTS governance and it was necessary to recreate it. The effects of the CPTS system are still apparent there. There is an inherent suspicion of banking, and modern forms of credit and means of transactions are distrusted. Often buyers will deal only in cash. The new American Dollar is trusted in and of itself, but the transaction back to pricing in real currency instead of Energy Certificates that existed only as entries on an electronic banking record has been difficult.

Rebuilding the physical infrastructure has also been difficult. The vast Brutalist blocks of flats of the CPTS government were abandoned during the Crisis and had deteriorated; rebuilding single-family homes was a burden but the rejection of the CPTS system required it.

Proper nutrition has increased life-span; the often crankish nutritional theories of the CPTS government had led to a deterioration in public health, covered up by false and misleading reporting by the American National Health System, and not alleviated by the comprehensive system of medical care it offered, which was further burdened by misguided and ineffectual treatment methods.

It may never be known how the population of the United Stateses had been reduced by the CPTS rule and the famines and devastations that brought it to an end. The census in the NATO area has shown a remarkable increase in the population in the years since the installation of the new government; some statisticians have been writing of a "baby boom".

Problems still continue. There has been a marked shortage of technically-trained personnel. Many of the engineers educated under the CPTS system had had their skills deteriorate through lack of application, being assigned to political and administrative tasks. Also, many had died in the famines, and more had fled to the CPTS zone.

Beyond that, there has grown a suspicion of "science". Pseudo-sciences proliferate. A scandal in the government brought about the resignation of President Michael Deetz, when it was revealed that his principal advisor, a woman claiming to "channel", that is to say to have the entity possess her body and speak through her, the spirit of an Atlantean sage named Zigmuckluckclick, had been paid several hundred thousand dollars for her services. Such grotesque performances, worthy of an Aleister Crowley, are all too commonplace. Their popularity stems from the linking of science with the excesses of the CPTS regime.

The former Territory of Alaska, having expelled the CPTS presence in the southern parts of the territory, was admitted to the United States as a state. A vote taken in the Dominion of Newfoundland in 1994 over the question of continued independence, union with Canada, or union with the United States, was inconclusive, as all other such plebiscites have been since the first one, and the Dominion has continued on its shaky course.

Nevertheless, the new government has rebuilt, provided itself with the apparatus of civil governance, and become capable of managing its own affairs. The success of the rebuilding was made apparent when the United States acceded to the NATO treaty in a ceremony on 11th September 2001. The authority of the occupational forces terminated that day and the troops were withdrawn within six months.


The United States of America (CPTS) holds authority in the region around Denver, the "new capitol".

The government there claims sovereignty and authority over the entire nation, but in practice it only controls the states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Wyoming; and not even the entire territories of those states. In that area the practices of the CPTS continue to hold sway.

The United States (NATO) lacks the desire to absorb these territories by force; the United States (CPTS) lacks the military power to recover its former rule.
 
The Rebuilding

While the population of the United States (NATO) has been released from the “scientific” oppression of the CPTS, the rebuilding of the country has been a more difficult task.

Some of the elements of the CPTS policy remain. The principal means of long-range travel is still the Interurban Railway, for example, even though American-built copies of British and German jet aircraft, built under license, are coming into service. Goods are generally shipped by railway.

Due to the nonexistence of long-range highways, similar to the German Autobahn, private motor vehicles are used mainly for local service. The preferred means of powering them is electric, though more combustion engine vehicles are coming into service as people begin to have a wider range of travel.

The CPTS policy of housing entailed the destruction of most small towns and of suburbs, forcing people to live in single-room blocks of flats. These Brutalist structures were abandoned during the collapse of CPTS rule and now are deteriorating.

Problematically, the construction of these buildings was done at great cost to the social structure. City parks no longer exist, having been turned into sites for more blocks of flats.

Many historic sites no longer exist. A scholar in American History from Cambridge, wishing to see the current state of the tomb of President Grant, discovered that the building had been demolished and now was the site of a block of flats. After considerable research he discovered a surviving worker from the demolition team, who told him that the workers had been told to “dump everything in the river”, including presumably the bodies of the President and his wife.

Cemeteries were particularly hard hit. Most cemeteries in or near cities were destroyed for use as builing lots. A veteran of the World War cited with particular sadness the razing of the Tomb of the American Unknown Soldier.

The CPTS government disdained professional sports as part of its policy of discourging entertainment. Sports arenas were demolished and blocks of flats were built at the locations. There is an “American National Baseball League” using improvised locations, with eight teams named after former teams of the pre-CPTS era, under the direction of Mr James H. Waugh, an accountant. The players are poorly paid.

Few other means of entertainment exist. Plays were discouraged. The cinema fell into desuetude as people no longer had the time or energy to attend, and in any case the films produced by the National Council for the Arts Cinema Project were inferior and uninteresting.

The national parks were no longer funded by the CPTS government and were neglected, if not outright ruined. Often Interurban tracks would be run through the site of a park with consequent destruction of the site. Some funds have been available for reconstruction.

Family life suffered under the CPTS government, and the famine that followed. Many people have no known ancestors or relatives, leading to a feeling of abandonment and solitude. The destruction of neighbourhoods under the CPTS policies also furthered this attitude.

The new government has restored licenses for wireless and introduced television transmission. Much of the content of the latter is foreign programming. The former CPTS “cable radio” channels are no longer available in the USA (NATO) areas.

Similarly, cinema is primarily foreign imports, albeit a local cinema has been reviving, with films produced in the former facilities in New York and California. American acting and directing talent is often recruited by British cinema, though.


Cultural life in the USA(CPTS) remains as arid and rote as it was when the government controlled the entire country.
 
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