Part 1 of The Metamorphosis

link - https://musopen.org/music/603-ballade-no-1-op-23/ * Amazing piano music provided by MusOpen.org.

Reading from Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, by James Legare.

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Official symbol of the Technocracy movement (Technocracy Inc.). The Monad emblem signifies balance between consumption and production. - By Tsuruya - Own work, Public Domain, link -

M. King Hubbert - link - Marion King Hubbert (October 5, 1903 – October 11, 1989) was an American geologist and geophysicist. - the Hubbert curve and Hubbert peak theory (a basic component of peak oil) * - Wikipedia contributors. "M. King Hubbert." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 10 Dec. 2024. Web. 21 Jan. 2025. - link2source - "King Hubbert" - Hubbert was an avid technocrat. He co-founded Technocracy Incorporated with Howard Scott. * The technocracy movement was a social movement active in the United States and Canada in the 1930s which favored technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy and concomitant partisan politics. - link - The technocracy movement proposed replacing partisan politicians and business people with scientists and engineers who had the technical expertise to manage the economy. ***

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