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The tragedy of bureaucracy (opens the original)
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Napoleon told Goethe that politics was his age’s version of ancient fate. Political forces were now the impersonal higher powers drove events, that determined outcomes and sometimes frustrated individuals’ designs and aims. Tragedy - the conflict between individual will and some universal higher power - was provided by politics and no longer the will of the gods. The individual could seek to master political forces through rational will and statecraft - but once unleashed, these powers could jus
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