The world is much less governable than we think it is, so we pay governments taxes to put on a painful oogabooga theater, where the pain is “proof of governedness.”
“I filled out an annoying form and was on hold with bureaucracies for hours so the world must be orderly”
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I am convinced that bureaucracy has saved the republic more times than we're aware of.
Under both Bush and Trump, there were literally bureaucrats that refused executive orders, because the wrong forms were filled out. And those hard nosed little shits brought them to heel.
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I’m sure. That’s an orthogonal point though. Theaters can pose grave risks despite being theaters. Like burning down.

