- How bureaucracy is evidence of the complexity of the real world, and the only way to solve global problems;
- Notes from the fringe: How Tennessee prevents people voting; Trump’s niece on Trump’s dementia; USA Today about covering Trump’s dementia; Candace Owens is preoccupied with homosexuals; and Anderson Cooper challenges Trump’s claims.
Salon, Matthew Rozsa, 6 Sep 2024: Bureaucracy is despised for inefficiency and waste. But it might just save us from climate change, subtitled “Despite attacks on bureaucracies, experts agree such organizations are more important than ever”
My take, before reading this: If you have no idea what all those people are doing, it’s easy to think they’re inefficient and wasting their time and our money. But the real world is always more complex than most people think. And the inevitability of bureaucracies is the evidence.
Government bureaucrats are often depicted as wasteful and inefficient bleeding hearts with secret, sinister and sometimes “socialist” agendas. Former president Ronald Reagan famously denounced bureaucrats throughout his political career — and, four decades later, Donald Trump and his acolytes did so in their own way by decrying a supposed “Deep State.”
