Gormenghast

Why is the government slow, inefficient, and stupid?

gregladen | May 26, 2016

I'm not anti-government. I'm pro civilization. But I'm also an anarchist, of a sort. I think institutions should be dissolved and reformed regularly. What really happens is that institutions add bits and pieces over time, in response to things that happen, as solutions to interim problems, until finally the bits and pieces take over and nobody can move. Do you know the The Gormenghast trilogy? In this amazing story by Mervyn Peake ... ... a doomed lord, a scheming underling, an ancient royal family plagued by madness and intrigue - these are the denizens of ancient, sprawling, tumbledown…

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Why is the government slow, inefficient, and stupid?

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