Quotes by David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

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Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male po — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed anything, it was thi — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
The basic principle of structural analysis, I was explaining, is that the terms of a symbolic system do not stand in iso — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the effort expended o — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
In American prisons, which are extraordinarily violent places, the most vicious form of punishment is simply to lock a p — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
This is of course why violence is so often the preferred weapon of the stupid. One might even call it the trump card of — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
The “self-actualization” philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insists that we live in a — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity--o — David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy