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A [[second-order derivative]] of the [[will to power|will to advancement]]. If we take it as a given that ''every'' | 1. A [[second-order derivative]] of the [[will to power|will to advancement]]. If we take it as a given that ''every'' factotum wants to “head up” ''something'', and ''all'' factota 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 factotum in charge of it. This is of course a form of pyramid scheme. | ||
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]]. | 2. 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. | ||