Since the Second World War, huge governmental and corporate bureaucracies have proliferated every phase of human life. Within these bureaucratic structures, decisions affecting the lives of all individuals are taken without their consent or knowledge. It is also true that many of the world's greatest power struggles take place within these bureaucracies for they provide the right cover and hiding place for those incarnates of the Dark Forces. Many government institutions, created out of lofty principles designed to benefit mankind, struggle to fulfill their mission in the face of an overpowering tide of bureaucratic self-interest and self-preservation.
The Large Bureaucracies that Proliferate Earth
In all the history of mankind there has never been such a massive proliferation of government bureaucratic organizations purporting to maintain justice and good for mankind as in the post-World War II period. Essentially non-productive, in that they do nothing that creates earthly wealth, they function primarily as parasites with a voracious appetite for money. The oft used reference to "paper pushers" is more truthful than one thinks for aided by certain technologies such as the copy machine and the computer, bureaucracies try more and more to justify their existence by producing more and more reports.
The greater part of the wealth that has been created during the post war years remains in relatively few hands, primarily within national governments which assign themselves a fiat to tax and take with the threat of force their citizens' earnings and wealth. This, ostensibly to finance the large bureaucracies, government programs "for the people" and the national military and defense establishments. These national governments are relatively few in number, some two hundred fifty-one in the world today, but they control in the name of their people untold amounts of the world's wealth. When we look into their taxation systems, questions arise as to the unimaginable wealth these governments siphon off the masses of people, much in the same pattern of the Medieval fiefdoms with their serfs, again throwbacks of the Atlantean period.
On the international and regional levels, massive bureaucracies were created to maintain a new world order for peace following the conflagrations of the last World War. The United Nations and its plethora of specialized agencies, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the International Finance Corporation, their regional development banks and branches, has grown into an enormous hydra-headed monster that sucks in huge amounts of money yet has very limited success in its mission, stymied by the narrow national interests of its members. In addition to these world-wide organizations, regional security organizations, such as NATO and SEATO, were established in the major regions of the world. Millions of employees in these organizations feed off of mankind, their utility often questioned.
Humanity also labors under the organizations of purported goodwill. The Roman Catholic Church, Anglican, Episcopal Baptist church organizations, religious, non-profit, and charitable organizations have accumulated untold amounts of wealth, all claiming to redistribute a portion to the poor and needy. Some of these organizations stretch around the globe and may, in some cases, be larger than some national governments. The international association for non-profit organizations in the world lists 20000 of these agencies.
Basic Organization and the Hiding Place of Mischief
As we mentioned, except for the ancient church organizations, most of these bureaucratic organizations arose after the Great World Wars of the Twentieth Century more or less in tandem with the creation of the modern nation-state. Each and every organization has had or still has a valid function or raison d'etre. Yet contrary to all efforts of mankind to create unity among man, the Dark Forces have infiltrated all of these organizations in order to squelch these lofty ideals and sabotage their initial idealists actions. The result has been to neutralize these organizations, rendering them bloated, useless and ineffective while draining the resources of a hungry world.
The basic bureaucratic organization consists of a top tier of managers and leaders. This is where the incarnates of the Dark Forces operate. Often ambitious yet posing as managers for the common good, they channel tax revenues primarily to support the ongoing maintenance of the bureaucracy and secondarily to the bureaucracy's programs. The second tier consists of relatively idealistic individuals who provide the technical backbone of what the bureaucratic organization is supposed to do. They are usually experts in their fields and have good to noble intentions yet they quickly learn that their ideals have no place in the bureaucracy. To placate them so that they do not "rock the boat", they are guaranteed a steady salary, job security, and lifetime retirement benefits. Few on this second level give up this security to exert their ideals. The last tier is comprised of the support and administrative staff. They are the expendable ones, especially when money appropriations get temporarily short usually determined by the state of the economy and the amount of taxes collected. The bureaucracy expands and contracts on this level leaving the other levels relatively in tact. The second and third levels is where the famous bureaucratic red tape proliferates, for without it these individuals would have little to justify their salaries and job security.
It is on the top tier that we observe the Dark Forces in their stride. They speak the same language and espouse the same pat goals as the others, yet grapple for influence and power within the organization without conscience. They will step on whomever gets in their way to reach the top, which they invariably do. And it is here that decisions become colored by the glamour of personal power and influence instead of by the organization's purported mission.
The resulting bureaucratic mindset is to resist change. Tied up in a mire of internal regulations and procedures, few have the energy or the desire to surmount all the obstacles established. The easiest path is to take no action or to say "no" or expend the least amount of energy either to block or drag matters out. This accounts for the slowness of action. When the first tier pushes and demands, the rest of the bureaucracy will react. Yet, when the public makes its demands, there is less incentive to work as the bureaucrat will receive his salary and job security no matter what. This is one of the most reactionary characteristics of the bureaucracy.
On the international level, the enormous bureaucracies of the United Nations and its agencies, were once the recipients of the "best and the brightest". They are now filled with political hacks that member governments have dumped there to keep them out of their respective countries. European citizens, already groaning under the weight of their voracious national government bureaucracies, have created yet another layer in the European union. NATO, void of a raison d'etre after the fall of Communism in Europe has survived by inviting new members, some of them former enemies, to join in an even bigger organization.
Stymied from carrying out its ideals, the bureaucracy turns inward, creating perks and benefits for itself, often without the knowledge of the masses of taxpayers. They acquire the best buildings, ride in expensive cars, hold seminars in expensive country clubs and hotels, travel internationally, all in the name of doing good for their people. State affairs are the most lavish. Here, they expend the most money on wining and dining their guests with the best, again all in the name of their respective peoples.
As these bureaucratic perks increase, the bureaucracy considers its own survival ahead of any other lofty goals. Bureaucrats view their salaries as the most important element of their work. And thus the survival of the bureaucracy becomes the unstated first and foremost the goal of the organization.
Effect of the Bureaucratic Phenomenon
From the above observation, we see that most national and international organizations have been reduced to their lowest effective functioning level, in effect neutralizing their purported good works. The United Nations unfortunately has been reduced to a forum of squabbling nations that passes resolution upon resolution without much effective impact. And this is exactly as planned, for with these mammoth organizations rendered ineffective, the Dark Forces are in a position to wield their considerable powers to bring the world to war.
The Dark Forces, being without conscious, have created an extreme burden on humanity. As the bureaucracies consume enormous resources, their output is far less than the cost of maintaining them. They are primarily parasitic. Yet, this is but a side problem, for their presence justifies the most odious tool for accumulating money, TAXATION through force.
