https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/everything-is-yours-everything-is-not-yours-d6f66bd9c6f9#.1b8dlh42y<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bureaucracy. It’s such a wonderful word. It was coined by a French economist, first two names “Jacques Claude” (Marie Vincent de Gournay), and he meant it to be satirical. He was quoted as describing an illness known as ‘bureaumania’, and ‘bureaucracy’ was meant to be a crazy form of government \u2013 government by desks, from desks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Somehow the term became neutral over time. Bureaucrat can be a compliment\u2013 there’s this mental picture of Sumerian scribes, Chinese scholars, Roman consuls (though come to think of it my mental image of Roman bureaucrats is skewed negative\u2013 I imagine them corrupt, shady. I suppose this has to do with the fact that the Roman empire ultimately failed.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I initially began on this train of thought when looking for an antonym to \u2018brutish\u2019. I was writing a bit about modern civilization, and I found myself thinking that \u201cbureaucratic\u201d was the right one. Life used to be brutish (violent, short) and now it\u2019s bureaucratic (desk-bound, slow, long). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can we do better? What does the future of bureaucracy look like? How can we have the best of both worlds? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do I care about digging deeper into the history or nature of bureaucracy? I suppose it would be interesting to know how exactly all this stuff happened. it began with… sumerians, in mesopotamia. irrigation led to surplus, which had to be managed and distributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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