See? Looks like I haven't been talking gibberish after all! Or, at least, someone wise shares some of my paranoid delusions. He even points to the two most infamous technocratic states specifically.

A pity that he hasn't mentioned another important thing: that being convinced of one's total freedom from dogma (and founding your philisophy on this "difference" between you and the brainwashed masses) is the most dangerous dogma of all, and nerds are very likely to be convinced of just that.

(It's easy to glimpse some scary moments of that dogma on the blog of a certain locally famous software engineer... although, as I said, he's far from the worst of it.)