[hyggetrold]

> Remember: The powers that be forbid progress, as progress might disrupt the powers that be.

Mostly agree but would amend - what is actually forbidden is change. And since all progress involves change...you can fill out the rest.

[Alupis]

The infamous Oscar Wilde quote, "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" is as true as ever.

Every bureaucracy ends up the same - serving only itself to preserve itself.