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America is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year – isn't it a disgrace that it can now take ten years just to get a permit approved for a simple road?
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Donald Trump
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'This is our New American Moment' – Read excerpts from Trump's first State of the Union address
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Today our government finds it hard just to make a website.
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Peter Thiel
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Peter Thiel: Trump has taught us this year’s most important political lesson
Election 2016
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The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
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Hannah Arendt
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A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence
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Against Massive Universalist Governing Systems
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Blackwater's dedication to efficiency formed the cornerstone of our entire corporate culture. It was perhaps the ultimate benefit of our streamlined hierarchy: The company had one owner— me— so no stockholders to answer to. There was no board of directors to argue with, and no interminable bureaucracy of a government organization. I could delegate much of my authority, or choose to stand a post overseas. We were nimble and aggressive. And as I learned a few short months later, that approach to our work made quite an impression.
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Erik Prince
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Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater
Against Bureaucracy
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Organizations become bureaucratic as soon as people define their job around a specific rule, or feature, rather than a goal. For example, if you tell me my job is to cook the french fries, I will resist anything that threatens the existence of french fries, since when they go away, so does my job. But if you tell me my job is to make side dishes for customers, I'll be open to changing from fries to onion rings or other side dishes, even ones we've yet to invent, since my identity isn't tied to a particular side dish but instead to the role side dishes play. Bureaucracies form when people's jobs are tied strictly to rules and procedures rather than the effect those things are supposed to have on the world.
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Scott Berkun
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The Year Without Pants: WordPress
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Nature just decided, 'Okay, if I want to get conscious, I'm gonna need technology to do it because these people don't have clear enough minds to use telepathy. They are too cluttered.' Technology is an extension of nature, but people don't see it that way.
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Jody Radzik
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Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
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The Essence of Technology
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Chaos is the way that nature reasserts herself into our attempts at organization and control, especially when those efforts are intentionally oppressive.
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Douglas Rushkoff
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Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
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