ABSTRACT
Chapter six considers how in the twentieth century, as the social appetite for the control of events grew, government priorities changed. Public expenditure as a share of GDP expanded dramatically. These developments were part of a broader bureaucratization of society. As nations moved from industrialism to post-industrialism, legal-rational and procedural views of the world grew. So did the political marriage of sanctimony and expertise, the development of pressure-group politics, and the preference for social status rather than functional performance. Auto-industrial society in contrast depreciates qualification-driven status-seeking. It encourages self-employment in preference to organization and hierarchy, adaption and observation rather than intervention and control, and autodidactic learning in place of credentialed knowledge.
