I can empathize with your son. I grew up and lived in CA until 08'. His description of the DMV is exactly how I felt 15 years ago. You can smell the proto-totalitarianism.
If they could they would coat this country in a never ending truck stops of beige, boring, bureaucratic buildings to house the bovine/canine/beelzebub chimera's that bark orders at you because their masters might let them off the leash to get a treat and a mismatched pair of shoes next Tuesday.
"Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal
contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity"
Wow. Excellent quote.
I can empathize with your son. I grew up and lived in CA until 08'. His description of the DMV is exactly how I felt 15 years ago. You can smell the proto-totalitarianism.
If they could they would coat this country in a never ending truck stops of beige, boring, bureaucratic buildings to house the bovine/canine/beelzebub chimera's that bark orders at you because their masters might let them off the leash to get a treat and a mismatched pair of shoes next Tuesday.
"Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal
contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity"
- Theodore Dalrymple
Y'all dropped some fine quotes in this here thread. Thank you!
Nice. Dalrymple rules.