i'm pretty sure we're all sick of bureaucracy and yet cling to it

it's not that we have faith in the systems around us, it's that the people that express those systems are in our worlds enough that we can personalise the processes and blame an individual, or empathise {which is worse{?}}

but unlike a politic there isn't reconciliation at the bureaucracies heart, there's just a seeming of baseless ceremony between thought and action, as if that weren't a hard enough process already.

and when we're dispossessed of agency it's a simple fear keeping us immobile, immured to the point of inaction, thought stripped back to dull acceptance.

a cataract ridden tiger in the corner, on a length of chain, waiting for mercy