Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics: pic.twitter.com/sbBFfYiRt2
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) August 6, 2015
(A lot of attention gets paid to #2 in my neck of the woods, but they all merit profound meditation.)
Robert Conquest's Three Laws of Politics: pic.twitter.com/sbBFfYiRt2
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) August 6, 2015
(A lot of attention gets paid to #2 in my neck of the woods, but they all merit profound meditation.)
doesn’t 3 rule out 2? are all the capturing/cabals somehow liberal?
Doesn’t #3 mean: The way mature bureaucracies are run looks indistinguishable from a deliberate effort to maximize their dysfunction. That seems not only compatible from #1 and #2, but even something close to a logical deduction from them.
ok, here in the US the nearly universal phenomena of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
is somewhat taken for granted and slurs aside any long-term organization with more than a handful of employees is really a bureaucratic organization.
Tempted to grant you that, but there’s still a distinction worth holding onto between businesses — subjected, however inefficiently, to an objective performance criterion — and governmental organizations that, under normal circumstances, can be wholly captured by administrative elites with self-defining missions.
like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/world/americas/as-mexico-arrests-kingpins-cartels-splinter-and-violence-spikes.html
?