A long time ago Mauriello requested this blog and it was a topic that I had a bit to say on, but at the time just could not find the words to voice my opinion. Before I get into the blog I want to remind everyone that the UCB Winter Quarter is about to come to a close April 1st. That being the case it is time for the double points blog to make its elusive appearance again.
As usual the double points UCB is in addition to the remaining two that are left in the quarter and will only be written if the topic is one I feel is double points worthy. If you think about it if you were to win the last two blogs and score the UCB double points blog that would be four points and put you clearly in contention for the title. Just thought I would throw out some food for thought.
A bureaucracy is defined as a system of administration based upon organization into small groups or bureaus, division of labor, a hierarchy of authority, etc designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.
Bureaucracies are pretty much the tiny subdivisions of organization that we have to deal with in our society on an everyday basis be it good or bad. They are also the reason why certain things like legal proceedings, the DMV, even renting an apartment in some cases take forever and can be frustrating as hell. Bureaucracies have rules, and lots of them it is the only way to make such as system work with out falling apart.
It is a in most cases “too many chiefs and not enough Indians situation”. You see it all starts with a few little employees such as the DMV for example were there are “x” amount of customer service agents. Each one of those agents report to a supervisor, who then imparts their findings to his supervisor, who then goes to his higher up and so and and so forth. This is all fine and dandy for your everyday operations but when something out of the ordinary needs to be done even if it is the simplest of tasks it ends up taking forever.
I will use the transferring of my apartment from joint tenant-ship with my last roommate to adding my new roommate to my lease. This should have been an easy seamless process considering I was still on the original lease but thanks to all of the rules of the bureaucracy of the rental agency became the biggest headache ever. I had to get the place inspected, fill out new rental applications, pay rental application fees, sign waivers. It became a mountain out of a mole hill process courtesy of a bureaucracy all because they have a protocol that must be followed for all procedures no mater what the situation.
The reason for this is because of the pure stupidity of 90% of the public. Lets face most people are morons. I see it everyday and it makes me sad. For that reason bureaucracies exist. To firstly keep the hopelessly stupid employed, in many cases all the way up the food chain thus you have the blind leading the blind, and it helps the retarded coup with living. Basically it is a house of cards built by some very smart people, but run and managed by idiots. It is for this reason that such institutions drive the intelligent crazy.
What shall we do in place of them? If you take away bureaucracies then you would have complete totalitarianism. I don’t really know what’s worse, one jack ass calling the shots or a whole collection of them lost in the woods. For me it comes back to my age old dilemma: do we educate those who are willing to learn and excommunicate those who are unfit to help with the betterment of society or do we keep sailing on the sinking ship we know. If we did this who would be the judge and what would be the criteria. Unfortunately I don’t think I would still fit into it. Face it we are all fucked, but who cares the world is going to end in a year any way.
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