Just a short post today. I’m appealing to the Space Brothers to deliver us from bureaucracy. Not that I have anything personally against anyone who works for a bureaucracy. I’m sure that they’re good people who are just glad they have a job and are trying to fulfill it to the best of their ability. But I can’t help but wonder how we let our lives get so ruled and gummed up by bloated bureaucracies that make everything more expensive and difficult, without, often, serving the people that the bureaucracy was originally intended to serve—instead, serving itself and mystifying purposes that don’t seem to do much except generate a bunch of odious and confusing paperwork.

 

I know that people need these jobs; so maybe we could give them different ones: pursuing that craft or art form that always made their heart sing; taking care of small, adorable (or even, possibly, difficult) children while parents go to work; helping the elderly to live independently in their own homes; heading outside on a fine fall or spring day and picking up trash that litters the highways; retooling abandoned malls; providing paying jobs for valuable, currently volunteer firefighters; rebuilding places devastated by extreme natural phenomena; or participating in chocolate truffle contests to come up with the most exquisite flavor combinations and kite competitions to see who can design the most ingenious and delightful kite. For example.

 

Any other ideas?