“If human life is going to grind to a halt, it won’t be because we’re bled to death: we’ll just get tired of filling out forms.”
This is a brilliant observation. As the son of a man who worked for the federal government for some decades, I can attest to the truth of this statement. My dad, when asked what he does, would reply: "I push papers and wipe noses."
It's really interesting to me to think that, though the version of freedom I have is different than what my ancestors might have had, the constrictions upon my person are put in place for mostly the same reasons.
Good read! One of the problems with US government bureaucracies that is unappreciated is that if you challenge a rule that they have promulgated you must first challenge it within their own court system before you can challenge it in a federal court. Process, process, process. These are called Administrative Law Judges. The amount of resources it takes to effectively challenge their rules makes it so that most of them go unchallenged.
“If human life is going to grind to a halt, it won’t be because we’re bled to death: we’ll just get tired of filling out forms.”
This is a brilliant observation. As the son of a man who worked for the federal government for some decades, I can attest to the truth of this statement. My dad, when asked what he does, would reply: "I push papers and wipe noses."
It's really interesting to me to think that, though the version of freedom I have is different than what my ancestors might have had, the constrictions upon my person are put in place for mostly the same reasons.
Good read! One of the problems with US government bureaucracies that is unappreciated is that if you challenge a rule that they have promulgated you must first challenge it within their own court system before you can challenge it in a federal court. Process, process, process. These are called Administrative Law Judges. The amount of resources it takes to effectively challenge their rules makes it so that most of them go unchallenged.
https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/about-office-administrative-law-judges-oalj
Just now getting to this series. Great first installment. Pushing through to the next.