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  • Bureaucratic Insanity: The American Bureaucrat's Descent into Madness

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Bureaucratic Insanity: The American Bureaucrat's Descent into Madness

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In contemporary America, schoolchildren can be charged with battery for throwing a piece of candy at a friend or threatened with expulsion for making a “gun” gesture with their index finger. They can also be imprisoned for cutting class and placed in solitary confinement or made to share prison cells with hardened adult criminals. In the workplace, our jobs are more monotonous, repetitious and rule-ridden and less secure than ever before. We are made to answer to uncaring and even sadistic bosses, teachers and police, all of whom care much more about following rules than about helping people. Every year federal and state legislatures and bureaucracies pump out thousands of pages of new laws and regulations—enough to make every American into an accidental criminal. By and large, America's bureaucracies are plumbing the depths of mass insanity. In Bureaucratic Insanity, journalist and social critic Sean Kerrigan documents this disturbing trend toward absolutist and authoritarian behavior by dissecting the psychology of obsessive, rule-focused bureaucrats. He traces the development of bureaucracy from its origins in the early industrial revolution to the modern information age. He also examines ways of avoiding being victimized by bureaucracy gone mad.
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    182 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    April 10, 2016
  4. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.46 x 8.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1530989523
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1530989522
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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 10, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 182 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1530989523
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1530989522
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.46 x 8.5 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #665,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars (26)

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Sean Kerrigan has been a writer and public social critic for the last 15 years, concentrating on issues of economic, political and social decay in the United States. Educated at Temple University in Philadelphia, he worked for several years as a journalist focusing on hard news coverage. Disillusioned by the economic crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, he refocused his attention on challenging the accepted mythology of American society. His work has been featured on the BBC World Service Radio, popular blogs such as Zero Hedge, and several daily newspapers including the Bucks County Courier Times. He maintains a regularly updated website at SeanKerrigan.com and a Twitter account @SeanJKerrigan.

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