Tuesday 15 January 2013

Bureaucracy Must Die

Hierarchy is the basis of capitalism. Like capitalism, which is monetarized hierarchy, the bureaucracy must number and quantify every aspect of human existence, must expand its control over every possible nook and cranny.
Expansion keeps one’s superior happy and the success of the gang is ensured. The successful underling will earn a smiley face from the leader and possibly promotion too.
On the surface the wars of the first half of the twentieth century were wars of rival military bureaucratic complexes.
But, under the surface, the aim was the regimentation of everyday life. Every individual was directed by the state.
The aim of the bureaucrat is to maintain and expand his power. The aim of the bureaucratic class is the expansion of its power.
Inevitably this leads to a loss of power by the individual and the horizontal group. If the hierarchy tells me where I must be, what I must eat, what I can say, what I must think, they have gained my power, they have centralized my power, in the way an atomic bomb has centralized my violence.
The enemy of the bureaucracy isnot the Marxists or the Fascists or the Islamists - they can and do adapt to the prevailing ideology.
The enemies of the bureaucracy are the free trade unions, the syndicalists, the anarchists, the small shopkeepers, the peasants, the independent churches, the schools and libraries set up by local subscription, the businesses, clubs and organizations set up without direction from above.
Today, every aspect of our existence is monitored and regulated. Set up a club or a business and you will be checked up on and directed from above. Education, health, even charity, is now sponsored and controlled by the invisible hand.
Bureaucracy is a cancer that spreads across society, killing everything it touches.
It is a parasite that feeds off the host organism.
When it has completed its work of destruction, both the host society and the parasite die, leaving a new world to start the whole process again.

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