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You could start with the bureaucracy of the Holocaust, perhaps?
by fapjacks 6y ago
You could start with the bureaucracy of the Holocaust, perhaps?
- pintxo 6y agoWell no. Because this was a bureaucracy under the textbook definition of a "psychopath warlord king with little fiefdoms raiding their neighbors". So, yes a "psychopath warlord king" will need a supporting bureaucracy. But that is not bureaucracy __on its own__ as bad as the "psychopath warlord king", but rather under it. Basically my assumption is that under a "psychopath warlord king" bureaucracy will be crazy, but it won't be as bad under Democracy (which is kind of the opposite to "psychopath warlord king").
- fapjacks 6y agoOkay, it's an issue of semantics for you, then. So picture any number of bureaucratic messes which indirectly cause death and destruction, for example the giant cache of emergency food and water sitting in a hangar at the airport in Haiti while people were suffering and dying just a couple miles away. Or organizations like USAID where e.g. money meant for medical supplies or travel costs for medical personnel or similar in some poor nation that ends up mired in red tape while drought refugees die of dehydration or starvation. You know as well as I do that this kind of thing happens, but because there's no easy scapegoat, people pretend like it doesn't.