Silicon Valley Technocracy Can’t Replace Christian Constitutional Populism

America appears to have experienced a regime change from criminality to competence. But many would agree our culture is still in crisis. Drug and alcohol deaths are up, as is depression; random shootings continue, as do gender mutilations and senseless crimes.

Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy recently advocated for cultural revival by arguing that America needs a new “Sputnik moment,” a return to the 1950s and 1960s when we funded technocrats – whom Ramaswamy terms “nerds” – to help us compete scientifically with the Soviet Union. This time, however, the threat is China.

Ramaswamy contrasted the need for nerds with youth consumer culture, noting, “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”

He went on to argue that, though most parents value “normalcy,” that “doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent.” He concluded, “We’ve awaken[ed] from slumber before & we can do it again … but only if our culture fully wakes up.”

But is this really the kind of cultural shift America needs?

One indicator that it isn’t is that technocrat culture and consumer culture, which Ramaswamy contrasts, are actually the same thing. Both fund the other and have for 75 years since our last Sputnik moment.

Read more at 1819 News.