A neurosis is a problem-solving solution that has lived past it’s use-by date and just keeps on keeping on.
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There is no way of proving that you have obtained the most concise, accurate or irreducibly essential pattern or theory from which any sufficiently (i.e. non-trivially) complex pattern or sequence can be reproduced…
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B.S. (Bureaucracy Simulator) 2.0
Bureaucracy Simulator 2.0, in stores near you soon…
Bureaucracies and administrative hierarchies possess peculiarly mischievous methods of seeking sustainment and self-justification through the endless production of usefully wasteful products and services…
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Political Kindergarten
A chaotic world undergoing constant and accelerating metamorphosis requires keen intellect and insight to navigate, not the kindergarten chaos we most commonly observe…
Buddhist psychology almost exclusively locates the preponderance of human misery in this world to the many and diverse methods by which we attach ourselves to things in the world, to objects, possessions, people and ideas…
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Catastrophic Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy produces the preconditions for the intractable complexity of those problems to which it itself is aspirationally directed…
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Bureaucratic Inertia
Your average bureaucracy could not fight it’s way out of a wet paper bag…
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Dysfunctional
Dysfunctional…
If it has become (all too painfully) obvious that bureaucratic inertia and the endemic stagnation of administrative hierarchies everywhere is a global problem and everywhere apparent, this tells us something about the nature of the issue. That is not to say (as so many people do) “oh, that’s just the way it is everywhere” and […]
I find myself questioning many of the assumptions that the global paradigms of organisational hierarchy and bureaucratic dysfunction are founded upon. Those same hierarchies and floundering, listless corporations and nations are constitutive of a very specific, very closed world-view. This world-view is one which privileges and selects for those opinions and minds which are either […]
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Organisational Self(-ish)
The mystifying, proliferating inefficiencies of our vast and sprawling global bureaucracies illustrate clearly (yet perhaps also in some measure opaquely) the raison d’etre of administrative systems everywhere. That purpose and identifiable essential reason is the proliferation of their own continued existence. Whether or not it should be considered as though seen through some conspiratorial filter […]
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