Most Americans, fooled by liberal education and the press, believe that the government’s goal is to provide them with a free and peaceful existence. But this does not always work out because some problems arise, bad people strive for power, and so on.
We learned to understand the language of bureaucratic ideology back in the former USSR. The rules are straightforward: listen carefully to what the villainous ideologists say most persistently, using the techniques of suggestion and manipulation, and understand precisely the opposite.
Usually, the word “corruption” (from Latin corruptio: bribery, venality; damage, distortion, decay;) is understood as the actions of individual bureaucrats, or relatively small groups, for example, the use of power for personal gain.
It sounded right on paper
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We grew up in the USSR under the communist regime. When we arrived in the United States in 1993, we were sure we would support the Democratic Party, considering it an antithesis to the communists. Doubts appeared when we began to understand better what was said on TV. The speeches of the Democrats and President Clinton in that remote 1993 somehow smelled of socialism.
In 1929, the presidential post was taken by Herbert Hoover, an ingenious engineer and entrepreneur who was the Secretary of Commerce since 1921. He was the one who brilliantly “propelled” the American and international markets and led the country to prosperity...
Deja-Vu (French déjà vu – “already seen”) is when a person feels that he has already been in a similar situation. The theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is based on revealing repeating cases that follow specific patterns. When studying bureaucracy, we focus on verifiable repetitions of situations at different times and in different places; we then use them to recognize and document patterns, solve problems, and predict possible future alternatives.
Bureaucracy and life
Dear readers, we are starting a series of articles about the impact of bureaucracy and the free market on our lives, their continuous cooperation and fight, and how to creatively conquer bureaucracy in your personal life, workplace, and even country. We hope that you will find our writings beneficial without getting too bored.
This is an ancient Roman proverb. There is a known phenomenon in biology called parasitic zombification – the situation when parasites not just feed on their prey but also become its “superiors,” i.e., influence its actions and even its physiology in their own interests. The affected organism starts acting in the parasites’ interest without realizing all the harm and dangers this could cause.
