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RE: The Wisdom of @valued-customer: A classification system based on the political nature of humanity
Awesome post, will have to incorporate some of these concepts into my upcoming Towards Voluntaryism section on government. Especially the Iron Law of Bureaucracy describes our current situation in the west, with the caveat that the bureaucracy has also been largely captured by special interests.
As to the taxonomy of individuals, I would humbly submit H. obliviosus as the do-gooder subset of H. domesticus. Oblivious to the fact they are useful idiots, virtue signaling tolerance and reason while exercising intolerance and emotional decision making: "I am for peace and freedom, do as my master says or else!"
I very much like H. obliviosus. Past the reasons you give, it's a simpler term and fits within the ...wordflow?...of the other terms.
I'll update the post ;>
Have you read James Q. Wilson's Bureacracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It?
He does an excellent job of tracking the growth of our federal bureaus with special interests in mind ( as well as personal leadership qualities in some of the early leaders of these agencies).
Thanks. Will check out Wilson, the name is familiar but I haven't read the book.
I have long considered many of these bureaucracies as the equivalent of the Roman Praetorian Guard which was beholden only unto the Emperor. Over time, while the Roman armies were abroad, the Praetorian Guard assumed more and more power until it was the only armed force allowed within the city walls of Rome. With a monopoly on violence, direct access to the Emperor and the Senate, it inevitably became politicized. The PG participated in numerous coups, overthrowing and installing many Emperors until they were disbanded. I speculate that we have already seen the installation of presidents via bureaucratic manipulation, with the 2016 election just being the most obvious thusfar.
damn I forgot to add one more classification system to the blog; which I'll do now, but I thought you'd like it:
"It is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of the business section of the bookstore. The theory begins with Hugh MacLeod’s well-known cartoon, Company Hierarchy (below), and its cornerstone is something I will call The Gervais Principle, which supersedes both the Peter Principle and its successor, The Dilbert Principle."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/