Gives Life Meaning: Homeless Mind - Modernity's Discontents - 2 - 0 views
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The discontents derived from the bureaucratization of major institutions are very similar to the ones just mentioned. However, they are even broader in scope for the simple reason that bureaucratization has affected nearly every sector of social life.
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A congregation of Tibetan Buddhist monks, let us say, transplanted to the United States, can start using electric razors without thereby altering the character of their social relations. If, however, this monastic community started to bureaucratize its procedures, the very fabric of its social life would change almost immediately.
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The individual is "surrounded" by bureaucracy far more effectively than he is by the technologized economy,
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