> last year that the U.N. system supported 27,000 meetings involving 240 bodies, and the U.N. secretariat produced 1,100 reports
The bureacracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy
The bureacracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy
It is the shade preceding the darkness that democracy dies in.
Rules, protocol and regs are obviously necessary to some extent, but it feels like (in Europe, at least) the map has been confused with the terrain. Overly burdensome protocols are fuel for inaction and hand-wringing and, not very surprisingly, private interests have learnt to take advantage of this (e.g. lawfare)
It is tempting to adopt a "drain the swamp" mentality, but we should remember that swamps are ecosystems too.
The steady hand becomes the ruler.