Technocracy Rising: What the Epstein Files Mean for Politics
The Epstein files land at a moment when public trust in institutions is fragile and global institutions are losing credibility. These disclosures won’t just scandalize individuals; they will deepen a wider narrative that the old global order is collapsing. That vacuum invites a new model of rule, and the word many use for that model is Technocracy.
You don’t have to look at the particulars of the Epstein files to see what is going on. The pattern matters more than the gossip: elite networks, secrecy, and the sense that political systems are unable or unwilling to hold powerful people to account. For many voters, that breeds total disillusionment with traditional political tools.
Zbigniew Brzezinski foresaw transitions in his book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, describing three ages and announcing a shift into a “Technetronic Era.” His framework explains how a new managerial elite could claim the authority to reorganize society. Whether you agree with his timeline or not, the concept of a tech-driven ruling class is now central to the debate.
The modern Technocracy movement did not hide its ambitions. A 1937 manifesto in The Technocrat defined its project as a scientific overhaul of society’s mechanisms. It promised distribution by technical systems and rejected conventional political and financial structures outright.
Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population… For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical, engineering problem. There will be no place for Politics, Politicians, Finance or Financiers, Rackets or Racketeers… Technocracy will distribute by means of a certificate of distribution available to every citizen from birth to death. – The Technocrat, 1937
The United Nations language in recent years echoes that sense of deliberate transformation, with officials openly discussing a timetable to change long-standing economic models. That rhetoric sounds less like gentle reform and more like an engineered economic reset, planned on a global scale. When technocrats speak this way, intention becomes the key concern.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution… This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history”. (Figueres, Feb. 2015 press conference) [emphasis added]
Intention, timetable, ability, and action spell conspiracy. If elites plan a wholesale economic remake and also operate through secretive networks, that should alarm citizens who prize self-government. That alarm is fertile ground for political realignment and for skeptics who distrust centralized planning.
Three years ago, a Trilateral Commission member declared that 2023 was “year one” of the Commission’s New International Economic Order. After that, Trilateral Kier Starmer (UK Premier) says that “globalisation is over and we are now in a new era.” Those declarations are not subtle signals; they are proclamations about a new direction for elites and institutions.
For nearly a century, the builders of today’s Technocrat class have articulated a technocratic replacement for traditional politics, and we are now living through that transition. The Epstein files, in that frame, are not the core of the story but a delegitimizing accelerant to it. And it is no small detail that Jeffrey Epstein was, himself, a member of the Trilateral Commission.