The barren glory
I myself had already spoken to you of that middle class which hungers so ravenously for place and office, distinctions and plumes, and which at the same time is so avaricious, so suspicious with regard to its money which it invests in banks, never risking it in agriculture or manufactures or commerce, having indeed the one desire to enjoy life without doing anything, and so unintelligent that it cannot see it is killing its country by its loathing for labour, its contempt for the poor, its one ambition to live in a petty way with the barren glory of belonging to some official administration.
Emile Zola – Rome (1896)
Today we know all about the barren glory of belonging to some official administration. From prime ministers downwards, all are familiar with a world of bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy.
Should Mrs H and I wish to extend our house beyond certain official limits we’ll have to acquire official approval. The other day I topped up the AdBlue tank in our car, a bureaucrat’s answer to a bureaucrat’s problem. The whole car is a complex web of manufacturer’s responses to bureaucratic interference. Now we have the EV, a bureaucrat’s car. A Swamp car perhaps, to be powered by Swamp electricity – but not when the wind doesn’t blow. There is no Swamp wind.
Senior politicians, senior members of the permanent administration, international bureaucrats, senior members of the judiciary, NGO and Quango executives, senior media people, major journalists, politically active celebrities and many others could be considered as a loose caste with one particular interest in common – support the Swamp, grow the Swamp.
We are stuck in a highly evolved bureaucratic Swamp where we cannot vote for anything but more bureaucracy, more Swamp, more Swamp people, more Swamp-related business. We are entangled with a whole caste of Swamp people who can’t do anything but Swamp-work. Even the UK monarchy joins in.
Nothing escapes Swamp-people. They have their Swampy fingers in everything from the corner shop to the local school, from light bulbs to the road network, from paint to social media, from petrol to sausages, from coffee to missiles to Swamp health, Swamp hectoring. Nothing escapes completely and nothing avoids being sucked in further, decade by decade.
The Road to Serfdom was a warning we failed to heed and now we are faced with our destiny – Swamp Serfs. We were warned and warned again, but still we voted Swamp.
Besides that, a wave of regimentation is sweeping the world—standardized schooling, like everything else out of a tin, is cheaper, easier, and certainly safer than my sort of venture. In the educational sense, as well as every other, individual effort is going to be swamped.
Dorothy Bowers – Fear for Miss Betony (1941)
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-barren-glory.html
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