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[Johnny Holiday/John A. Taube]

RALPH NADER:   �POWER TO THE PEOPLE.�

Letter to the Editor   SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Fax: 415-543-7708  San Francisco, California

Dear Editor:

Tuesday, November 7th of this year we will be electing our next
president. From your March 20, 2000, article �Nader, in Sacramento, Says
Outsider Status Is His Strength� he appears to be optimistic. My
comments reflect a background in Technocracy Inc., a scientific,
educational research organization.

>From a truly basic perspective of where our nation is heading, one could
not do better than reflect on one of Nader�s statements �. . . . That�s
what we appeal to � the recovery of control so that we have a government
of, by and for the people instead of a government of Exxon, by General
Motors and for the Duponts.� He us talking about the power of
�Corporate America.� The rest of the article is about Nader�s concepts
of how this can be turned around and the �power� will be in people�s
hands.

While one truthfully cannot doubt Nader�s sincerity, it�s unfortunate
that he does not show any understanding of the problems that result from
the scientific nature of our age, modern times. He is joined with
others, to name a few: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Angeles Davis, etc.
who are commonly classified as �liberals.� Their sincerity cannot be
questioned but their common misunderstanding is that �power� in anyone�s
hands � the common person�s or the �rich-bad-guys� hands� � is not a key
point in solving modern day problems of our scientific-technological
age.

Ours is not the primitive culture of colonial days but we still attempt
to maintain stability using the same socioeconomic structure, our �Price
System,� that was used in primitive colonial times.

Beyond the scope of this letter is an explanation of how �power� is
actually in the hands of those who control our life-support-systems by
which we get food, water, energy� electricity, gasoline, etc. How
different from colonial times!

Any public figure who expounds on control and ignores the above
paragraph does a disservice to society.

We have moved from the primitive agrarian age of colonial times to an
advanced scientific-technological age. Our survival depends on our
adequately adopting a social structure that put us in sync with modern
times. Technocracy has drafted such a design for a modern social
structure and literature on it and other Technocracy�s concepts are
available upon request.

Sincerely,