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Bureaucracy: (n) a state in which a few decide for the many
I find it extremely audacious and perhaps even pretentious to believe that I have any idea what’s best for me.
I may rail and scream, demanding the right to make poor decisions for my own life, but in my saner moments, free from vanity, I’m completely aware that I am inept at planning my own peace.
And it becomes nefarious to think that I, as a mere mortal, would have any goddamned idea what would be best for you. Yet for some reason, like early Spanish explorers who apparently believed that the world was created for them to pillage, when we get finished screwing up our lives, we feel mission-driven to spread that message of disarray into the affairs of others.
That is bureaucracy: malcontents determined to make other people just as miserable as they are–whether they do it in politics, by passing numbskull laws which are ill-suited to solve the aching need; or in religion, where they preach a God of love who is more picky than your Aunt Myrtle.
Bureaucracy is where we discover we are impotent… but decide to hide it under seven pairs of pants.
Published by Jonathan Cring
6 years ago 
