09/24/19 [L/G/authority] [L/G/cent] In her book, Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt states that rule by decree is efficient because it bypasses the intermediary steps between issuance and application, prevents political reasoning by the people, ignores local customs and bypasses the process of general law. It facilitates centralized administration because it overrides local autonomy. [L/G/cent/decep] “If rule by good laws been called 'the rule of wisdom', rule by appropriate decrees may rightly be called the rule of cleverness. For it is clever to reckon with ulterior motives and aims, and it is wise to understand and create by deduction from gernally accepted principles.” [L/G/bureau] Referring to the bureaucracy in France, she says, “There the administration has survived all changes in regime since the Revolution, entrenched itself like a parasite in the body politic, developed its own class interests, and become a useless organism whole only purpose appears to be chicanery and prevention of normal economic and political development.” Such is the nature of centralized administration. Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt
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