Bureaucracy - The Demon Controlling Our Lives

With the advent of the Internet, the "soul" of all bureaucratic systems, is its endless swarm of email decorating the PCs of everyone in the corporate and government offices. The added electricity to run the mail servers and the terabytes of data they transport requires some form of fuel that places a burden on our environment.Tons of jet fuel is needed to transport bureaucrats from city to city or, even country to country as they travel to their important meetings or golf games.Bureaucracy ruins our health.The frustration in the everyday dealings with bureaucrats has spawned many diseases from heart attacks to assorted cancers. To "cure" us, "Big Pharma" bureaucrats use the media to push a variety of prescription drugs. Every other television commercial in the US keeps telling you to "ask your doctor" about the benefits of a this pill or that pill. Doctors, who make profits from prescribing certain drugs, tend to over medicate the population. In reality, the Pharmaceutical Corporations are really drug lords and the doctors their dealers.

Along with physical illness, there is also psychological addiction to substances like alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. Many of us have a hard time overcoming such addictions simply because they are crutches that help us face our daily encounters with the demon of bureaucracy.Bureaucracy in the form of "political correctness" limits our freedom of speech.The media now attempts to control every aspect of our lives. They tell us what to wear, what to eat, how to act, and what to say. Even though they claim that there is freedom of speech, if you say the wrong thing you could lose your job and your credibility. It doesn't matter if what you say makes more sense, if it is not "politically correct," you are subject to ridicule, loss of job, or a ruined reputation.Many people have been fired for expressing themselves "inappropriately" with blogs and videos on the Internet. Google, Yahoo, and MSN have been blocking "inappropriate" web pages in countries like China. We can look forward to the day that countries like the US, Canada, and the UK will also censor "politically questionable" content.ConclusionThe Demon of Bureaucracy reigns throughout our civilized world. It is the manifestation of "corporate-aliens" trying to control our planet. Bureaucracy pulls the strings and we dance to the whims of our "corporate masters." We are so deeply entrenched in our bureaucratic systems that it becomes exceedingly hard to combat the demon. In a subsequent article, I will try to come up with some ideas to help exorcise this demon from our lives.

Bureaucracy is the foundation of tyranny. What made old style Soviet Communism so onerous was having to wait in line for everything. Even worse, once you crushed your way to the front (when I was in Yugoslavia, they really didn't take turns -- they pressed forward and waved their hands until they were called on)... you weren't assured "permission" to build, buy, or operate what you waited in line for. The "permission giver" -- let's call him or her the bureaucrat -- operated by whim, old-boy networking, mood, bribery, or lust.You had no rights, except the right to persuade the bureaucrat to see things your way. Indeed, hope you'll please consider all this. bureaucracy