'The King of Ruffle Bar' and the Insanity of Bureaucracy

"The delusional aspects have to do with the institutionalized necessity to control ‘everything,’ and the widely accepted notion that the bureaucrat knows what is best; never for a moment does he doubt the validity of the bureaucratic solution.  It is also slightly insane, or at least indicative of our incapacity to order priorities with any common sense, to spend thousands of dollars for helicopters, gasoline, and salaries for the sole purpose of bureaucratic neatness."