^z 14th April 2023 at 7:15am
In a set of stories written a few decades ago, sf writer Frank Herbert (of Dune fame) described a government that included a "Bureau of Sabotage" — an official agency designed to throw sand into the otherwise inhumanly-efficient clockworks of the State. Cute concept — somewhat like the rôle of the tribunes in the Roman Empire (see ^zhurnal 26 Dec 1999, TheVeto), or the US Presidential pardon, or aspects of the judicial systems of many nations. Escape hatches — artificial mechanisms to disrupt a pattern which otherwise might run amok. Illogical and vital in the real world of imperfect knowledge.
Friday, March 09, 2001 at 20:46:11 (EST) = 2001-03-09
(correlates: InBalance, SmallInfinity, FictionalHurdles, ...)