Honored . . . no, HAPPY to be invited to join the Left Technocrat Discussion Forum. “How can that be, Harris, you a hardcore Luddite?” “That’s ‘Luddite Hardcore’,” I reply, “my musical genre (see the music festival I work on at HONKfest.org).” A LEFT technocrat critiques the technocracy in order to bend it to human emancipation. Even when William Ophuls calls for a return to a pre-modern agrarian order like that of traditional Bali, he adds: “but with modern dentistry.” Amen. Or Moishe Postone, exposing the destructive treadmill of capitalist technological dynamism by shining a light on the material abundance it has already created.

The philosophy of the Left Technocrat is Epicurean. Former Mayor of Bogota Enrique Penalosa said, “Don’t tell me how JUST your reform is, how ECOLOGICAL, tell me how HAPPY it will make me!” And so, I’m happy to join the conversation!