Bespoke translation by yours truly. Original article [A] by Danisch
A thought. Or two.
I write much and often about my thoughts on herd mechanics and the brain, its archaic functions.
In the past two, three days, in news articles, talk shows, news reports and other sources, at least one, rather two dozen times, "bureaucracy" was labelled as the biggest location problem [of Germany]. Recently, I have talked about some show reporting that, in nursing, they don't have enough laborers, and even the laborers they do have are spending 40% of their time on bureaucracy, so that this labor becomes lost. Just now, a tax advisor complained about it in a news segment.
Somewhere today, someone complained that they're trying to dictate every little decision, make everything exactly equal, completely regulated.
There is no reconciling of costs and benefits whatsoever.
But how can things get this way? How does it happen?
So far, my theory has been that it's simply a consequence of the corrupt welfare state. The state is supplementing its administration with ever more (especially women's) benefit positions, there are ever more people sitting there, and they have to be made busy or want to be responsible for something, be important, design something, enforce it, and self-actualize.
You have seen that very well with the Bundeswehr [German army]: Three feminist Ministers of Defense, and nothing worked anymore. Because they enforced a women's quota. But because that can't be achieved in the fighting force, they cheated and inflated the administration with women until the women's quota was - at least mostly - achieved. In doing so, they have installed an oversized, overcomplex administration in which everyone wants to be and is supposed to be responsible for something. Result: The Bundeswehr is no longer able to buy or order anything bigger because every order must pass through countless departments and get signed off, or is being drowned with complaints and change requests, because someone somewhere ensures that battle tanks don't disadvantage pregnant women. And when orders are done going through the entire chain, it took so long that the order has become obsolete or the offer has expired and all that crap needs to start from scratch. They can't order anything that way.
So you could get the idea that the overburdening bureaucracy is a direct consequence of supplementing the administration with superfluous staff. That there are simply people with an urge for administration and who don't have any real tasks. Bullshit jobs.
But I am thinking of another, herd-mechanical and Marxist observation.
Could it be that the political selection of public servants has led to a supercritical buildup of herd mechanics who, after a certain density, rile each other up like a nuclear reaction in the power plant (or the nuclear bomb)?
So that they prefer hiring "leftists", and they think in Marxist-herd-mechanical ways and morbidly overdo it, so
Now that I think about it, I can think of other variations: The classic "block leader", the "criminal charge champion", and the self-appointed "morals enforcer" in Islam.
Which brings me to the question of what socialism and communism actually are.
Is it an ideology that is adhered to in the sense of a sect?
Or is it a kind of reaction by mutual incitement, like a nuclear reaction which happens automatically after a certain critical mass of herd-mechanic-minded brains? Is the ideology thus not the cause, but the effect of a congregation of leftists? Do leftists not meet in the ideological church, but do leftists become ideological as soon as three of them stand together, because they then become a herd?
I have written a few times about many leftists, feminists, do-gooders are descendants of high ranking Nazis.
I assumed that they are distancing themselves to a morbid degree, want to put a close to it, and that's why they construct ideologies according to which you can be whatever you want, and genetics and ancestry don't play any role.
On that, a reader wrote to me that he sees it the other way around: Namely, not psychologically, but genetically. That the leaning towards a herd conformity is a genetic trait of the tribe, and they're not leftists because their ancestors were Nazis, but the other way around, that the tribe tends to herd mechanics and therefore the grandkids become leftist/feminist/eco for the same reason why their grandfathers became Nazis. So that these people are generally vulnerable to conformity, no matter what direction the wind in the herd is blowing. Which fits very well to the fact that I can imagine a whole lot of these people (including some professors) perfectly as Nazis, and they would have felt like a fish in water if they were given a tailored Nazi uniform and power over others. I have witnessed people at university who not only would have made for perfect Nazis, but whom the Nazi uniform in all of their mannerisms and appearance would have "suited" them, in the sense that they would have been a perfect fit for this aesthetic scheme of the Nazis.
If you follow this thought, then preventing a repeat of history would include that everything - administration, science, media - would need to be staffed with at least a required quota of individualists, lone wolves, and nonconformists who prevent this escalation of conformity.
Instead, the exact opposite happened here, which is basically the phase leading up to the chain reaction: Left-wing corruption led to the exclusion of individualists ("don't give them a platform") and only hired conformists. As if uranium atoms were magnetic and would congregate by themselves into a rod or a bomb.
So is every state doomed to fail when you allow conformists to congregate? Paradoxically exactly those people who have been equipped by nature with herd mechanisms?
Are we actually already back in the state of a Third Reich regarding the density of conformity, just with a different behavioral program?
Bureaucracy as compulsive herd mechanics?
A thought. Or two.
I write much and often about my thoughts on herd mechanics and the brain, its archaic functions.
In the past two, three days, in news articles, talk shows, news reports and other sources, at least one, rather two dozen times, "bureaucracy" was labelled as the biggest location problem [of Germany]. Recently, I have talked about some show reporting that, in nursing, they don't have enough laborers, and even the laborers they do have are spending 40% of their time on bureaucracy, so that this labor becomes lost. Just now, a tax advisor complained about it in a news segment.
Somewhere today, someone complained that they're trying to dictate every little decision, make everything exactly equal, completely regulated.
There is no reconciling of costs and benefits whatsoever.
But how can things get this way? How does it happen?
So far, my theory has been that it's simply a consequence of the corrupt welfare state. The state is supplementing its administration with ever more (especially women's) benefit positions, there are ever more people sitting there, and they have to be made busy or want to be responsible for something, be important, design something, enforce it, and self-actualize.
You have seen that very well with the Bundeswehr [German army]: Three feminist Ministers of Defense, and nothing worked anymore. Because they enforced a women's quota. But because that can't be achieved in the fighting force, they cheated and inflated the administration with women until the women's quota was - at least mostly - achieved. In doing so, they have installed an oversized, overcomplex administration in which everyone wants to be and is supposed to be responsible for something. Result: The Bundeswehr is no longer able to buy or order anything bigger because every order must pass through countless departments and get signed off, or is being drowned with complaints and change requests, because someone somewhere ensures that battle tanks don't disadvantage pregnant women. And when orders are done going through the entire chain, it took so long that the order has become obsolete or the offer has expired and all that crap needs to start from scratch. They can't order anything that way.
So you could get the idea that the overburdening bureaucracy is a direct consequence of supplementing the administration with superfluous staff. That there are simply people with an urge for administration and who don't have any real tasks. Bullshit jobs.
But I am thinking of another, herd-mechanical and Marxist observation.
Could it be that the political selection of public servants has led to a supercritical buildup of herd mechanics who, after a certain density, rile each other up like a nuclear reaction in the power plant (or the nuclear bomb)?
So that they prefer hiring "leftists", and they think in Marxist-herd-mechanical ways and morbidly overdo it, so
- they reject all individuality,
- they regard everything as mere herd, as "class",
- therefore they want to enforce herd-conforming, uniform behavior up to the smallest movement,
- therefore develop an unlimited compulsion to control,
- and - explicitly or subliminally - have a hate against "capitalists" and thus every entrepreneur, every company, and therefore lose all sense of proportionality, because everything is under the call of the herd, which is and has to be precisely uniform.
- make decrees, including arbitrary and made-up ones,
- monitor their compliance, also via extensive documentation mandates,
- sanction their violation,
Now that I think about it, I can think of other variations: The classic "block leader", the "criminal charge champion", and the self-appointed "morals enforcer" in Islam.
Which brings me to the question of what socialism and communism actually are.
Is it an ideology that is adhered to in the sense of a sect?
Or is it a kind of reaction by mutual incitement, like a nuclear reaction which happens automatically after a certain critical mass of herd-mechanic-minded brains? Is the ideology thus not the cause, but the effect of a congregation of leftists? Do leftists not meet in the ideological church, but do leftists become ideological as soon as three of them stand together, because they then become a herd?
I have written a few times about many leftists, feminists, do-gooders are descendants of high ranking Nazis.
I assumed that they are distancing themselves to a morbid degree, want to put a close to it, and that's why they construct ideologies according to which you can be whatever you want, and genetics and ancestry don't play any role.
On that, a reader wrote to me that he sees it the other way around: Namely, not psychologically, but genetically. That the leaning towards a herd conformity is a genetic trait of the tribe, and they're not leftists because their ancestors were Nazis, but the other way around, that the tribe tends to herd mechanics and therefore the grandkids become leftist/feminist/eco for the same reason why their grandfathers became Nazis. So that these people are generally vulnerable to conformity, no matter what direction the wind in the herd is blowing. Which fits very well to the fact that I can imagine a whole lot of these people (including some professors) perfectly as Nazis, and they would have felt like a fish in water if they were given a tailored Nazi uniform and power over others. I have witnessed people at university who not only would have made for perfect Nazis, but whom the Nazi uniform in all of their mannerisms and appearance would have "suited" them, in the sense that they would have been a perfect fit for this aesthetic scheme of the Nazis.
If you follow this thought, then preventing a repeat of history would include that everything - administration, science, media - would need to be staffed with at least a required quota of individualists, lone wolves, and nonconformists who prevent this escalation of conformity.
Instead, the exact opposite happened here, which is basically the phase leading up to the chain reaction: Left-wing corruption led to the exclusion of individualists ("don't give them a platform") and only hired conformists. As if uranium atoms were magnetic and would congregate by themselves into a rod or a bomb.
So is every state doomed to fail when you allow conformists to congregate? Paradoxically exactly those people who have been equipped by nature with herd mechanisms?
Are we actually already back in the state of a Third Reich regarding the density of conformity, just with a different behavioral program?
