Utopia Of Rules

The overwhelming number of stars and praise for the utopia of rules seems to justify it.

Utopia of rules. The utopia of rules. On technology stupidity and the secret joys of bureaucracy is only 180 pages long three essays an introduction and an afterword but i made more than 80 notes as i. Banking crisis of 2008 seems to imply a desire for more rules and regulations and therefore more gray men in suits standing in the way of freedom and innovation and generally telling peoplewhattodo. What i read though was a a bunch of thrown together essays written stream of consciousness style jumbles of logic with vague points leading nowhere and statements of caricature masquerading as fact and several fantastical rebuttal arguments with.

On technology stupidity and the secret joys of bureaucracy is a book by london school of economics anthropology professor david graeber about how people relate to and are influenced by bureaucracies. Provocative and timely the book is a powerful look and history of bureaucracy over the ages and its power in shaping the world of ideas. Indeed in our own utopia of rules freedom and technological innovation are often the casualties of systems that we only faintly understand. He describes the contemporary era as the age of total bureaucratisation in which public and private bureaucracies now so intertwined as to be effectively.