The Bureaucracy of the mundane is totalizing and is intended to put up what look like “understandable” barriers David Graeber already covered this a decade ago

The Bureaucracy of the mundane is totalizing and is intended to put up what look like “understandable” barriers David Graeber already covered this a decade ago > Bureaucracies public and private appear—for whatever historical reasons—to be organized in such a way as to guarantee that a significant proportion of actors will not be able to perform their tasks as expected. It also exemplifies what I have come to think of as the defining feature of certain utopian forms of practice: that is, ones where those maintaining the system, on discovering that it will regularly produce such failures, conclude that the problem is not with the system itself but with the inadequacy of the human beings involved—or, indeed, of human beings in general. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-ut...