[continued from previous message]   
      
      BCrats, middle level, learn quick that the way   
      to advance is to invent "stuff" and sell it as   
      vitally important. So, endless counting of beans,   
      endless paperwork, is seen as GOOD and USEFUL.   
      Looks just like Doing Something. Any who don't   
      think that way stay at the bottom. It's a   
      self-perpetuating ever-escalating mediocrity.   
      
      Only strong leaders can SMASH that and get back   
      to clean functionality.   
      
      But, after, it all starts again. Always will.   
      
      And that's How It Is - all through writ history.   
      Even the Sumerians developed a HUGE bureaucracy.   
      
      This is a kinda "human thing". At some point   
      it's clearly "wired in". No escape - just   
      perpetual resistance. Sometimes successful,   
      sometimes not.   
      
      Alas I don't think endless Khans forever   
      chopping useless heads represents any kind   
      of 'ideal'. SOMETHING needs to be re-thought.   
      HOW do you have a de-facto bureaucracy yet   
      NOT a bureaucracy ???   
      
      Better ask the "AI" because humans have NEVER   
      answered that question.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)