Ask HN: How to keep motivation despite growing bureaucracy?

In recent months I'm confronted with news like “How Ideas Die in the, Contemporary Organization” [1] and especially “Booming University Administrations” [2](also based on an FAZ article [3]), am fighting against the ARD ZDF Beitragsservice, who try to force me in paying horrendous sums for products I do not want and do not consume (no TV, no radio, no internet @ home), and a large load of bureaucratic processes in teaching and organizing a conference in the halls of academe. As an academic in my third year into my doctorate I'm losing motivation to pursue interesting things, as a gigantic load of bureaucracy consumes more and more of my energy… How do you going despite more and more administrivialities? How do you stay motivated while feeling as if you are the protagonists in Kafka's “The Trial”? -- [1]: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/beruf-chance/arbeitswelt/how-ideas-die-in-the-contemporary-organization-alf-rehn-13353150.html [2]: http://bjoern.brembs.net/2015/01/booming-university-administrations/ [3]: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/forschung-und-lehre/verbesserung-der-arbeitsbedingungen-an-unis-13354907.html [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial