WHY and HOW did everything around become a mess??? - Part 3

Chapter 3. A Fish Stinks from the Head Down

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.

Sooner or later, under the influence of the “malignant bureaucracy,” the entire society starts its “malignant transformation.” The signs of decline begin appearing in all areas of life – production, education, science, art, medicine, economics, etc., all the way to increasingly frequent and serious local crises. The life of the lower- and middle-class people (up to the medium bureaucracy levels) gets worse and more dangerous. At the same time, the following takes place:

• Decline of the economy, inflation growth, rise of the products’ prices, impoverishment of the middle class, loss of savings, the appearance of deficit, and even scarcity of food products and goods in less-developed nations.
• Rise of life-endangering factors, loss of hope for the future, prevalence of apocalyptic and catastrophic thinking and expectations.
• Breakdown of morality. Accumulation of toxic products of social decay that poison the social organism. Authoritarians, misanthropes, parasites that don’t want to work, cynics that don’t care for anything, corrupted officials, and criminals start dominating in society...
• Progression of bureaucracy interference in people’s lives, restriction of personal rights, disinformation, destruction of family life[1] and educational systems, etc.
• Rise of separatist trends and splitting in society, inciting hatred between various groups that the bureaucracy sets against one another.
• Legislative nihilism – neglect for laws and traditions; extremism – adherence to extreme views, actions and methods, seeking provocations, organizing riots and terrorist acts, etc. Rapidly rising problems in security agencies and skyrocketing crime rate both spontaneous and organized. Notably, organized crime gets closely allied with the “cancerous bureaucracy.”

 

The malignant transformation primarily affects those who have closer ties to the bureaucracy – the bureaucrats themselves and other members of the establishment, including the intelligentsia and the people of culture, art, and entertainment, as well as lower levels of the lower class who are mostly dependent on the bureaucracy and are controlled by it. But the most dangerous part of the bureaucratic transformation is its capturing of the unstable youth’s minds that are already damaged by hormonal bursts. The youth become the first casualties of the malignant bureaucracy, as they are being thrown into revolts and wars and are the first to die or get mutilated in bureaucratic games.

Every day is not Sunday

The malignant transformation of bureaucracy can manifest in various ways, ranging from “raving totalitarian insanity,” genocide, and obsessive aspiration for power in order to rule the world, like Stalin and Hitler, to quiet dementia, a collective Alzheimer’s syndrome, or simply put – the triumph of idiocy, as it was in the USSR with Brezhnev, started in America with Obama, and today successfully continues with Biden.

The problem is not that bureaucrats consume too many resources. Economic estimates show that from 50 to 70% of whatever society produces goes to the bureaucracy (both legally and illegally). But with modern technologies that allow one farmer to provide food for several hundred people, supporting the bureaucracy does not present a problem. Does it mean that the bureaucracy growth isn’t scary?

You bet it is! The problem is not in those cakes that bureaucrats will eat or in the suits that they will wear out, but in the fact that the quality of society management falls beyond the pale, and the society starts to disintegrate. In attempts to save the situation, bureaucrats introduce totalitarian management methods and draw their subordinates into wars. All this ends up in social catastrophes.

Revolution is the gravest ending of the malignant transformation

The bureaucracy’s triumph and idiocy ultimately cause social discontent, sometimes even in the most honest members of the bureaucracy itself. The bureaucracy expands and weakens at the same time, while people’s discontent keeps growing.

Although the power of the malignant bureaucracy is disgusting for the people, the biggest catastrophe is the destruction of power by revolutions. A revolution is a situation where the fight for power between various bureaucratic groups (religious, political, national, etc.) flares up in the society [2]. This fight encompasses the entire society and splits it into antagonistic groups that are often armed and ready for deadly combat. This results in anarchy in chaos in society, and then the power gets captured by extremists mixed with organized and unorganized crime, and the situation of the people always gets worse. The social order and the economy fall apart, the standard of living plumets, property protection and personal freedoms disappear, and for most people even surviving becomes problematic. The times of ruling by the former demented bureaucrats now seem like an unreachable paradise.

This is how the changes of dynasties in various countries and civilization periods took place. The aristocracy revolt, such as the French Fronde and the War of the Roses in 15th century England; the revolutions in England in 1642, in France in 1789, in Russia in 1917, in Spain in 1936, etc. Mankind (especially its most active progressives) must be constantly reminded of the immortal words by Michel de Montaigne, a 16th century philosopher:

“They who give the first shock to a state, are almost naturally the first overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first motor; he beats and disturbs the water for another’s net.”[3]

Waning and destruction of the country

A very typical result of the “bureaucratic cancer” is the economic and military waning of the country, followed by its conquest by seemingly weaker neighbors. But even more dangerous than foreign occupation is usually the rampant separatism and the disintegration of the country.

In multinational empires, the central bureaucracy breeds its “clones” at the outskirts, typical “occupational governments” or “native bureaucracies” to form the connection between the imperial elite and the indigenous people that speak another language and have a different mentality. An example of such “native bureaucracies” were multiple Russian princes, during the Tatar-Mongol occupation of Russia, whose main function was to ensure the tribute collection. The same was the English administration in India, etc.

Educated and smart “native leaders” know their “lords” very well and secretly hate them, dreaming of intercepting their financial flows and shaking off their control. When the central bureaucracy weakens, national bureaucrats quickly turn into patriots, declare attractive slogans about independence, liberation from foreign occupants, and the deserved superiority of their group (clan, tribe, nation, race, religion, party, etc.). And then they begin fighting with the remains of the empire and between themselves for dividing the legacy. Civil wars are always uglier than any invasion of occupants...

This happened in Ancient Rome when the country was being torn apart by contenders for emperors that were nominated by provincial legions or the pretorian troops. In the early 19th century, after liberating from the Spanish rule, the huge and very rich territory in South America was torn into dozens of pieces by greedy local bureaucracies, and some of these “pieces” still remain the centers of poverty and crime. The same happened in Russia after the Bolshevik’s coup in 1917, after the Soviet empire disintegration[4], after the fall of the communist regime in Yugoslavia, etc.

Come on, people, wake up!

A pessimist says, it cannot get any worse...

An optimist says, you bet it can!!!

Indeed, America is protected from the “malignant bureaucracy kingdom” better than other countries thanks to the ingenious Constitution. It does not allow the President or the Congress to make laws (decrees) that contradict the Constitution – this is being supervised by the Supreme Court. And for this reason the acute “social cancer” attack under President Roosevelt, albeit very dangerous, wasn’t fatal. President Harry Truman was able to “rollback” the socialist “achievements” by Roosevelt. Having realized that the main danger was in the lack of limitations on the powers of one leader, he was able to pass through Congress the law that limits the presidency to two terms. Perhaps, this is exactly why the huge power of the bureaucracy created by Obama was not invincible.

However, dear readers, don’t be so sure that the capture of power by a malignant bureaucracy and the subsequent breakdown of the country is impossible in America... Unfortunately, this was the line of thinking by a large number of politicians and suckers who trusted them, leading their countries to revolutions and civil wars.

Come on, people, wake up!

The bureaucracy "suppressed” by Trump is raising its head once again!

• They are the ones maiming our children with dreadful education.
• They are the ones killing our freedom with their “political correctness.”
• They are the ones humiliating us with their Critical Race Theory.
• They are the ones driving up gas prices.
• They are the ones issuing restrictions that strangle our business and extort our money.
• They are the ones who created the inflation that devaluates our savings.
• They are the ones who instigated the ridiculous war between Russia and Ukraine.
• They are the ones constantly lying to us from the TV screens and on the pages of their corrupt media.

 

If this empery of the malignant bureaucracy from the democrats continues, our “horror fairytale will become reality” much sooner than you will notice!

Come on, people, wake up!

How about a little laugh?

Creation leads the path for those who like to laugh.

One of our TRIZ students, a single middle-aged man, was very disappointed – his neighbor, an elderly policeman, every day released his dog for a run, and it kept doing its deeds right under our student's window. Talking to the neighbor was useless – he was deaf to any plea and very stubborn. The student didn't want to call the police. So, this was dragging on for years and seemed cureless.

The solution by the TRIZ method formed a contradiction:

“The neighbor needs to be informed that this cannot continue, but at the same time, you don't need to talk to him, write letters, complain to the police or to the newspapers, etc.”

The contradiction was resolved using one of the TRIZ methods – “replacing the object with its imitation” and the psychological method of "casual attribution.”[5] When the next time the dog happened to be on his meadow, our student came outside and took several pictures using a bright flash, so the photo captured the house, the dog, and the neighbor. The funny thing is that the camera was not even loaded with a film! The neighbor called his dog and went away without saying a word. It remains unknown what he thought about the reason for the “photo session,” but the situation never repeated again.

 

Warning. The authors Boris Zlotin and Alla Zusman ultimately reject censorship and self-censorship masked as “political correctness,” which interferes with freedom of speech guaranteed by the American Constitution.

[1] One of the results of the Welfare System was the destruction of African-American families, whereas up to 70% of black children are being raised without a father. Generous compensations for single mothers that allow them to enjoy their lives without having to work makes it undesirable for many women to get married, and bureaucratic inspections make it dangerous to permanently live with one partner even without marriage...

[2] The American Revolution was the only exception. But this is related to the fact that the events of 1775-1783 were not a typical revolution.

[3] Essays of Michel de Montaigne: Chapter XXII – Of Custom, and That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received.

[4] The USSR disintegration happened without any real civil war (Chechnya is a negligeable episode on the large scale), but at the outskirts of the country there were quite a few armed conflicts. And now we have the war between Russia and Ukraine...

[5] Casual attribution is the attribution of other people's actions to some reasons that may seem coherent but often have nothing to do with reality.