Brian Small.> The peril we face in trusting social, moral, and political affairs to bureaucracy may be highlighted by reminding ourselves what a bureaucrat does. As the word’s history suggests, a bureaucrat is little else than a glorified counter. The French word bureau first meant a cloth for covering a reckoning table, then the table itself, then the room in which the table was kept, and finally the office and staff that ran the entire counting room or house. The word “bureaucrat” has come to mean a person who by training, commitment, and even temperament is indifferent to both the content and the totality of a human problem. The bureaucrat considers the implications of a decision only to the extent that the decision will affect the efficient operations of the bureaucracy, and takes no responsibility for its human consequences. Thus, Adolf Eichmann becomes the basic model and metaphor for a bureaucrat in the age of Technopoly. #NeilPostman in #Technopoly on #Bureaucracy making me think of #MissionCreep or maybe #BloatWare, the #MegaMachines of Lewis Mumford killing off peasants and ruining the dirt.
bs2Epiphany! for me. I thought of a way to hack(?) block quotes so they don't look like my writing when shared from Misskey to Mastodon. After the ">" markdown placing a ".>" might not be too irritating. WIth just and addition ">" I ended up with nested blockquotes, which surprised me and will be very useful when quoting something with it's own quotes. I should have used that for Rebecca Gordon's post with the Hannah Arendt quotes.
#Fediverse #Misskey #MarkDown #Quoting #Blockquotes to #Mastodon