Why We Write

This blog is part of the fine tradition started by the first desperate wretch ever shipwrecked. It is a message in a bottle.

Most likely the castaway's message gave the nearest possible coordinates of where help should be sent, with a postscript to send water! Send food! Tell Mother I love her. Sad, desperate, alone in the vasty sea under the brilliant and remorseless sun.

Yeah, that's kind of how it feels when we actually try to impact the course of events.

Bureaucratic thinking is band aid thinking, it is cover your ass thinking, it is look good and do nothing you don't have to thinking. It leads to false conclusions, such as, "the perception of security is all that we need, not actual border security."

The mentality crosses all boundaries of race, age, sex, and governs practically all institutions from education to law enforcement right on up into the highest levels of judicial and legislative systems.

Bureaucracy is the Doomsday Beast rising from the sea to devour the world with sluggish nonchalance, runes of hell tattooed across its horns and heads. You can read them and weep for the death of common sense: "this incident reveals the need for further study and education," "this unfortunate incident," "an inappropriate display," "it's kind of a catch 22," "the system is overburdened," and yes, the final bestial banality, "this child just slipped through the cracks."

Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman railed against the media of the day, a beast of the same carnivorous appetite as in our own time. General Sherman claimed that he could "...kill every newspaperman in the country, and still wake up in the morning to read the News from Hell." And they called him crazy--I'd say the man was a realist.

Professional politicians, propagandists controlling information and entertainment, and the heartless bureaucratic Mandarins that regulate without mandate are the great dragons we must defeat if we wish to survive as a free republic.