In her 1969 essay “Reflections on Violence” Hannah Arendt disparaged the programmatic, technocratic, metrics-driven governance that began to flourish in America after World War II. She saw that bureaucracy was a machine that served to expand the state’s power over the lives of its citizens while dissolving its responsibility. Bureaucracy, in Arendt’s telling, is “the rule of an intricate system of bureaus in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many, can be held responsible, and which could be properly called rule by Nobody.”
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