When I was a graduate student in the humanities in the 1970s, my mentors thundered against the coming technocratic state. Politicians, I was told, would soon listen only to experts who would sacrifice human values for the sake of efficiency, while ordinary citizens’ voices would be drowned out.
金达尔的反应体现了一种让决策原理科学基础的倾向，这种倾向可谓方兴未艾，并且有可能带来灾难。但我认为二十一世纪的政治不会如此。20世纪70年代，当我还是文科研究生时，我的导师猛烈抨击即将到来的技术官僚国家。他们告诉我，政客很快就将只听命于让人本价值为效率让路的专家，普通公民的声音将被淹没。