IMA Bureaucracy - My Unconscious Routine

[djama]

I was having a think and a look
at my internal processes today
and I saw something I didn’t expect –
I saw that I am a Bureaucracy
Ie the authority to initiate acts
Is invested in a System
Rather than in an Individual, ie Me.

For example
All My Decisions* must be ratified by
Ethics and Efficiency Committees
Against ‘Established Criteria’

Application for Exception
Must be Approved by
The Exception Committee
Against Established
‘Special Criteria’

Application for Variation to the Criteria
Goes to a Specially Convened Council of Experts
and If Approved A Free-Ranging Investigation is Launched
To establish New Criteria

Investigations that reach an Impasse
Remain Suspended Open
Awaiting further evidence
And/or Periodic Review

*There is a class of Processes
Which bypass the Decision phase
These are processes that have proved themselves to be so reliable
That they can be allowed to function freely
without authorization
And even without any monitoring [consciousness]
These are the processes called ‘Automatic Routines’^.

Although Automatic Routines
Have the freedom to function
without authorization or monitoring
and usually do
They can be discredited at any stage
And have their rights to function revoked
As they are subject to any examination
At any time
By any interest
Including random investigations
Instigated under the influence of
A variety of substances.

^This may seem a little contradictory
As ‘Routine Function’
Is usually taken to be
a v low level of functioning
Rather than a higher one
But consider these examples:
The circulation of your blood and
The digestion of your food and
the only processes that get programmed into Auto-pilots
are the ‘Automatic Routines’
ie, the processes who have proved
to be so reliable that they dont
even need to be watched.

Passing into Unconscious Routine
Is ‘Making it to the Olympics’ for Processes
It means that the likelihood of failure of their function
is deemed to be so low
that it is not even worth the energy necessary
to watch it do its work

I realize I haven’t broached the subject of who the I of My is in ‘My Decisions’
but I don’t see it as relevant.
Because the various committees’ approvals are the necessary final authorities,
executive power is invested in the System
not in the I that may seek that approval
and therefore I am a Bureaucracy.

Footnote: The system I serve is my concept of Truth and Justice
whose test is Consistency
and whose processes I have put in place to safeguard that Service.

Not everyone serves such a system,
eg an alternative system may be:
the system I serve is my concept of loyalty to my group,
whose test is unalloyed allegiance
and whose processes I have put in place to safeguard my group and its members.
A lot of people seem to use one like this
– I suspect it has a Survival-of-the-Fittest Advantage
in a violently competitive world.

[fnord]

maybe if your name of this thread was leagible more people might read/respond to it.

[radiometer]

^ I agree with that, but I also rated it 5 stars for its thought-provoking quality.

[djama]

Originally Posted by fnord

maybe if your name of this thread was leagible more people might read/respond to it.

What does 'leagible' mean? - I cant find it in the dictionary.

[~lostgurl~]

Legible = clear and readable

[radiometer]

I believe that djarma was aware of that and replying snarkily, which I can't blame him. Just as I agreed with fnord on his comment, it is pretty funny, and deserves a quip, when someone corrects someone else's speech, in a manner, but with a badly mispelled word (no offense meant to you fnord!).

[Nagognog2]

That's right - stab the "leagible" Maniac...