Ruled by Men or Governed by the System?

We are locked within the tyranny of the administrative state, governed by the administrative system. What is the alternative? It is to once again be ruled directly by men.

65. Ruled by Men or Governed by the System?

Once you begin to seriously question the administrative state in its various forms and manifestations, people will ask the obvious question, “If not this, then what?” Let’s take a stab at an answer. To do this, we must first understand exactly what the administrative state is at its core. This thing is not any of the existing structures, that is, the bureaucracies in their various forms. These are mere artifacts. The administrative state is, at its heart, a way of thinking about the world that manifests itself in these structures to which we attach the label: “the administrative state.” The problem is not bureaucracy per se. All empires have bureaucracies of some form or another. What makes the modern administrative state as we know it and encounter it in government, business and non-profits, the thing that it is, is the way that the people who establish, structure, build, utilize and reform these institutions think about the world and the problems it presents. “Technique” is…