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}}The [[will to entropy]]. It is axiomatic that no bureaucrat does what she does for personal vainglory, but purely out of a full-blooded and plausibly deniable commitment to the rigorous, orderly and fully auditable ''machination'' of human activity, and in the service of the vanquishment of [[human error|mortal caprice]]. The bureaucrat’s art, like that of the graffitist, is of the spheres — a pure, ego-less submission to craft; a resounding cheer at the [[The Victory of Form over Substance|victory of form over substance]]. | }}{{d|Bureaucracy|/bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/|n|}} | ||
A [[second-order derivative]] of the [[will to power|will to advancement]]. If we take it as a given that ''every'' oompah-loompah wants to be a chief, and ''all'' oompah-loompahs need a path to chiefdom, then the best, easiest and most sustainable route to that is to create some new administrative function and put an oompah-loompah in charge of it. | |||
The [[will to entropy]]. It is axiomatic that no bureaucrat does what she does for personal vainglory, but purely out of a full-blooded and plausibly deniable commitment to the rigorous, orderly and fully auditable ''machination'' of human activity, and in the service of the vanquishment of [[human error|mortal caprice]]. The bureaucrat’s art, like that of the graffitist, is of the spheres — a pure, ego-less submission to craft; a resounding cheer at the [[The Victory of Form over Substance|victory of form over substance]]. | |||
There is a school of thought, of course, that governance is not the answer to the problem, but — as articulated — it ''is'' the problem. The bureaucrat’s art is to construct [[Rube Goldberg machine]]s of four-dimensional policy and process within whose swim-lanes the [[meatware]] is expected to ply its trade as faultlessly as it is able. It is founded on the [[high-modernist]] conviction that an optimal commercial path can be ''solved'' — deduced, from first principles — and, were it not for inconstant [[Meatsack|flesh-sacks]] who keep buggering it up, could be achieved by the relentless, flawless, operation of corporate machinery. Any deviation from that optimal true path must be a result of human error. | There is a school of thought, of course, that governance is not the answer to the problem, but — as articulated — it ''is'' the problem. The bureaucrat’s art is to construct [[Rube Goldberg machine]]s of four-dimensional policy and process within whose swim-lanes the [[meatware]] is expected to ply its trade as faultlessly as it is able. It is founded on the [[high-modernist]] conviction that an optimal commercial path can be ''solved'' — deduced, from first principles — and, were it not for inconstant [[Meatsack|flesh-sacks]] who keep buggering it up, could be achieved by the relentless, flawless, operation of corporate machinery. Any deviation from that optimal true path must be a result of human error. | ||