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This will upset two categories of people: [[administrator]]s — who we define as “that class of people who are not [[Subject matter expert|subject matter experts]], don’t understand the territory, fetishise the map, and therefore are aggrieved, or fearful, when the map is disregarded”; and [[Rent-seeker|rent-extractors]] — those who stand to be gain by rigid application of the map, some of whom will be [[administrator]]s, but many of whom will be external [[professional advisers]]. (Often the waiver process might require, for example, a [[legal opinion]]: being a certificate from a specially-engaged [[subject matter expert]] that there is nothing to worry about.)
This will upset two categories of people: [[administrator]]s — who we define as “that class of people who are not [[Subject matter expert|subject matter experts]], don’t understand the territory, fetishise the map, and therefore are aggrieved, or fearful, when the map is disregarded”; and [[Rent-seeker|rent-extractors]] — those who stand to be gain by rigid application of the map, some of whom will be [[administrator]]s, but many of whom will be external [[professional advisers]]. (Often the waiver process might require, for example, a [[legal opinion]]: being a certificate from a specially-engaged [[subject matter expert]] that there is nothing to worry about.)
====Protestant and catholic modes of organisation====
====Protestant and catholic modes of organisation====
This leads the [[Jolly Contrarian|JC]] to offer two modes of operation: the run-of-the-mill ''protestant'' mode by whose principles nearly all significant organisations are run — in which rules are rules, to suffer is divine, and rewards are presumed to be in the next life, since they clearly don’t apply in this one — and the much-talked-about-seldom-seen ''catholic'' mode —  in which people who know what they are doing act immediately and. if need be, ask for permission, or forgiveness, later.  
This leads the [[Jolly Contrarian|JC]] to offer two modes of operation: the run-of-the-mill ''protestant'' mode by whose principles nearly all significant organisations are run — in which rules are rules, to suffer is divine, and rewards are presumed to be in the next life, since they clearly don’t apply in this one — and the much-talked-about-seldom-seen ''catholic'' mode —  in which people who know what they are doing act immediately and. if need be, ask for permission, or forgiveness, later.