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• Bureaucracy

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• March 1st, 2021

  Administrative procedures are very much not about the creation of stories; in a Bureaucratic setting, stories appear when something goes wrong. When things run smoothly, there’s no narrative arc of any sort at all. *

  And of course by the time we get to Harry Potter, we have also traveled all the way from expressly heroic realms like Cimmeria or Elfland or Hyperborea, to an antiBureaucratic narrative that’s set within a classic Bureaucratic institution: a British boarding school, in a magical world that is nonetheless replete with banks, Wizard Boards, Commissions of Enquiry, and even prisons. *

• Thread on Horizonal Goals

  "being more organized" does not put my body into a state of active engaged intentionality, it just sounds vaguely Bureaucratic and virtuous in a dull way but when I envision the workshop in its dream state, then my body already knows what to do, it can barely wait

• 📙 After Virtue

  The fetishism of commodities has been supplemented by another just as important fetishism, that of Bureaucratic skills.

  Whenever those immersed in the Bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises.

• 📙 Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue

  Bureaucratic individualism is the bifurcated ideology that allows the contemporary inhabitants of the culture of emotivism to discuss morality in terms of rights and then make political plans in terms of utility.

• 📙 The Utopia of Rules

  Even from the beginning, the inhabitants of Bureaucratic societies like Egypt or Babylonia could not help develop a certain fascination with the barbarian hinterlands, which quickly became murky lands full of monsters and strange magical powers.

  Administrative procedures are very much not about the creation of stories; in a Bureaucratic setting, stories appear when something goes wrong. When things run smoothly, there’s no Narrative arc of any sort at all.

  And of course by the time we get to Harry Potter, we have also traveled all the way from expressly heroic realms like Cimmeria or Elfland or Hyperborea, to an antiBureaucratic narrative that’s set within a classic Bureaucratic institution: a British boarding school, in a magical world that is nonetheless replete with banks, Wizard Boards, Commissions of Enquiry, and even prisons.