Bureaucracy (n.) is only capable of functioning if it cloaks its mechanisms in a sort of 'pseudomysticism.' Since the people it dominates never really know why something is happening, and because a rational interpretation of laws does not exist, there remains only one thing that counts, the brutal naked event itself.
Bureaucracy (n.) is rule by nobody, that is, rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which nobody in particular is able to be held responsible because nobody in particular is in charge.
Bureaucracy (n.) is ideally fully developed when there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted.
Bureaucracy (n.) is the most social form of collective life, and its growth over the last two centuries has led to the demise of the polis and the political life.
Bureaucracy (n.) is the most tyrannical form of government of all in that, insofar as tyranny is the government that is not held to give account of itself, in bureaucracy, which is rule by no one in particular, there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being done.
Bureaucracy (n.) is tyranny without a tyrant. It is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act... for the rule by nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
Bureaucracy (n.) is the rule of nobody.