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That's a major component and harbinger of a Dark Age, the loss of a functioning bureaucracy.
by cco 8y ago
That's a major component and harbinger of a Dark Age, the loss of a functioning bureaucracy.
- tk75x 8y ago> functioning bureaucracy Isn't that an oxymoron?
- cco 8y agoIn case you aren't joking, it isn't at all. A highly functional bureaucracy allows a state to leverage scale in a way that less sophisticated governments just can't do. Infrastructure, military, R&D, and trade are all things that are hugely dependent upon a functioning bureaucratic state and crumble in the face of a non-functioning state.