Solana's....."the kind of people who are attracted to bureaucratic power and institutions are naturally left-of-center" is an important truth....and not one to be brushed aside. Getting people with conservative instincts to WANT to be bureaucrats is always going to be a struggle. Bureaucracy's inexorable expansion is in fact arguably the core cancer in advanced societies. "Unherd columnist Peter Franklin reflecting on his own experience of working in two UK government departments comments: “How many of the civil servants that most closely serve this Conservative government are actually Leftwing? Well....I would say approximately all of them”. And it’s not just the UK. Research in the US context finds that “the political beliefs of the median federal government employee lie to the left not only of the median Republican, but also the median Democrat”." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
Actualky, the key may be toward building anti-bureaucratic structures. What percentage of the average bureaucracy does something useful? 50%? 20%? 10%? 2%? Here’s an anecdote: Early in my career (neuroradiologist) I spent 2.5 years at WVU. Gene Staples was the administrator (hospitals had administrators then, not presidents), and he had two assistant administrators, Mike Stein and Bernie Westphal, both of whom freely admitted that they were little more than gofers for Gene. Mike once said that the org chart for WVU hospital was essentially a straight line extending between Gene and each person who worked there. Then place ran like a Swiss watch.
Shortly after I left, Staples retired. David Fine replaced him. Fine’s first moves were appointing an enormous bureaucracy. Within less than a decade the place was in dire enough financial straits that it was necessary to have massive layoffs. The layoffs were so severe that they included something to the tune of 70 ~administrators.~ Fine, an administrator’s administrator—aka grifter’s grifter—ultimately put on the same performance at Tulane and UAB. Similar results, but at least better contained than they were at WVU.
What do all these bureaucrats actually ~do~? If organizations can run without them—like after the layoffs—what did they actually accomplish besides looking like impressive numbers of employees doing what merely APPEARED to be critical work? Everyone has a boss. Even hospital “presidents” generally answer to Boards of Directors. Until and unless the Boards actually do their jobs, or rules are put in place limiting administrative expansion, the David Fines of the world will go on being the Dilbertian pointy-haired bosses that have no idea how best to run hospitals. Or, a la Claudine Gay and Liz McGill, universities.
The sociopaths that usually rise to power in a bureaucracy are usually only interested in their own power, and they are masters of manipulative rhetoric and lying. One major way they signal their power status is by gaining funding for staff expansion.
They are rarely actually competent.
Critics are almost always marginalized, fired or their ideas falsely appropriated and then made meaningless.
Neal Stephenson's novel, Seveneves, contains a very terse, unbelievably accurate--and frightening--statement about how this works. After a conversation between a power-ravenous bitch (who just happens to have been the president of the US in the novel) and a scientist, the scientist is talking with a very perceptive assistant of his:
“It would be easier,” Doob said, “if I could figure out what the hell she wanted.”
“You’re assuming,” Luisa said, “that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.”
Doob pulled his tablet closer and started trying to find Tav’s blog. “To what extent do you imagine she really is reporting facts about the AC? As opposed to creating the reality she describes?” Doob asked.
The following research paper is somewhat unique in that it contains some solutions, but the people most needing to understand it, actual "organizational sociopaths", will of course never go along with those solutions.
Purpose – Organisations sometimes select and promote the wrong individuals for managerial positions. These individuals may be incompetent, they may be manipulators and bullies. They are not the best people for the job and yet not only are they selected for positions of authority and responsibility, they are sometimes promoted repeatedly until their kind populate the highest levels of the organisational hierarchy.
The purpose of this paper is to address this phenomenon by attempting to explain why it occurs and why organisational members tolerate such destructive practices.
It concludes by proposing a cultural strategy to protect the organisation and its stakeholders from the ambitious machinations of the organisational sociopath.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop an explanatory framework by attempting to combine elements of the theory of memetics with structuration theory.
Memetic theory helps to analyse culture and communication of beliefs, ideas, and thoughts.
Structuration theory can be used to identify motives and drives.
A combination of these theoretical approaches can be used to identify the motives of organisational sociopaths. Such a tool is also useful for exploring the high level of organisation tolerance for sociopathic managers.
Findings – Organisational tolerance and acceptance for sociopathic managerial behaviour appears to be
[->] a consequence of cultural and structural complexity.
While this has been known for some time, few authors have posited an adequate range of explanations and solutions to protect stakeholders and prevent the sociopath from exploiting organisational weaknesses.
Reduction of cultural and structural complexity may provide a partial solution.
Transparency, communication of strong ethical values, promotion based on performance, directed cooperation, and rewards that reinforce high performing and acceptable behaviour are all necessary to protect against individuals with sociopathic tendencies.
Originality/value – The authors provide a new cultural diagnostic tool by combining elements of memetic theory with elements of structuration theory.
The subsequent framework can be used to protect organisations from becoming the unwitting victims of sociopaths seeking to realise and fulfil their needs and ambitions through a managerial career path.
Yes good point. there's a kind of Bureaucracy Syndrome isn't there? Problem: things aren't working properly...Solution: we need to hire someone to solve it.....Problem: gets worse.....Solution: more hires.....and so on....and on.....
There ya go. No one wants to admit that the system ~is~ the problem. And that adding more of the wrong parts to it only guarantees that it will get worse.
Keep in mind that when Affirmative Action was first installed in the early 1970s it was declared to be temporary, only lasting 20 years. A compassionate social assist has turned into a metastisized social cancer.
I am working on grants to raise funds for our historical New England church. Just about every application requests a statement about how we are reaching our affirmative action goals. We are located deep in the countryside where there is only a single black family in the area. Will we be disqualified for our demographics? It’s just knee-jerk insanity.
There are conservative black organizations, frequently religious in origin, that might be able to help.
Or Dr. Wilfred Reilly, a black lawyer and anti-"woke" social scientist at a HBCU, who is probably a good entry point to finding black scholars that can inform you of the history of abolitionism, or the lack thereof, in your historical church, then that church's positions on Jim Crow and subsequently the Civil Rights movement.
A number of anti-"woke", "liberal" black scholars have written extensively on why "woke", DEI, etc., are flawed, dangerous schemes that undermine western civilization and morals.
John McWhorter's book WOKE RACISM is one of the best in that genre.
So, your "goal" could be to incorporate the full range of black perspectives on your church's history. (also see https://freeblackthought.substack.com/)
If the granting organizations reject that, you might consider contacting FIRE or FairForAll, "diverse" groups that provide consultation and legal representation to individuals and groups that are facing anti-"white" bigotry from the DEI/woke cargo cult zombies.
Chris, I support you monthly. You are one of the few who put into action their beliefs. You are a breath of fresh air! A banner of hope and truth. Thank you for all you do!
DEI is one of many forms of postmodern neomarxism. It exists because western civilization is disintegrating at a deeper level, from techno-economic disruption, loss of high-social-trust and globalism. See Martin Van Creveld on “The Fate of the State”, 1990s.
What is needed is an anti-fragile “software upgrade” to the cultural operating system to restore high-social-trust institutions. Part of that will require purging things like DEI of psychological pathologies. Tabia Lee tried to do that, and got stabbed in the back.
The radical/extremist “left” always stabs “liberal” and centrist reformers in the back.
The NAACP is asking kids to reconsider going to Florida colleges because of the DEI laws. Strange that Asians and Hispanics are not on board with that. Nor even most native Africans.
This is an endless bizarre and distinctly racist business model.
There are over 100 HBCUs in the country, including the state of Florida. One of my first cousins is the chancellor at an HBCU, North Carolina A&T which produces half of the black engineers in the United States. It also has great sports programs.
I strongly recommend that young prospective black students and black athletes consider attending these schools. Establishing more black-owned institutions, black-owned NBA & NFL teams, and a black group economic base is very viable to fight white racism.
Blacks are very talented people who mostly enrich Jews and white people. The mal-distribution of wealth to whites and its subgroups needs to cease or black people will become a permanent underclass.
It's insane to do the same things over and over again with the same results. Racism is a competitive relationship between groups for ownership and control of resources for wealth and power (a reality!).
Europeans got the headstart with genocide, free indigenous land, free black labor, colonization, apartheid, and Jim Crow.
Forfeiture isn't a viable option. Black people must seriously get into the race with black group economics. Racism is a team sport as clearly illustrated by yesterday and today.
Social integration isn't measurable; it can't be deposited into the bank to compound interest. Black people only shopping at white businesses for goods and services, at the same time getting despised by whites? This doesn't make any goddam sense!
Life is not a zero sum game. Sorry you feel like it is. If white people never existed you still be in the same pickle, probably worse. Asians and Hispanics have no patience.
I'm financially independent and don't need whites for necessities to sustain my life. I do have two white maids and one Hispanic maid working at my 8,000-square-foot home and the beach condo. My gardener and handyman are white. Moreover, Asian and Hispanic babes can be impatient for the attention of a black man. Can you salsa, meringue, or cha...cha? What do you personally own and control that could negatively impact me? Bad breath? Lol!!!!
I am so glad to read this Christopher... Again, you put the finer point on who the other side is and how they operate. I am also glad you see the the shift back to the right. That means we have been effectively chipping away at leftist fantasy and standing on more solid foundational concepts once again. That is the begining of restoration and an opportunity to grow freedom and truth as necessary components of being a functional productive human. WIN!
There's a reason why people of influence are shifting to the right. Many people are starting to catch on that America has been swindled. I explain how America got sold a bill of goods in my latest "2026" Substack titled "National Swindle" at https://2026.substack.com/p/national-swindle
Chris, you’re the conduit of the “wisdom of the ages” in thIs manner you successfully analyze, attack, and bring sanity back to an already unmitigated mess in the fabric of our society. So much of our cultural heritage has been savagely attacked with a propensity toward complete destruction of our history. The far left radical elements which have taken over so many of the laws for our protection have turned them to perversions ( releasing criminals in the United States and receiving and welcoming criminals at the southern border)!!! You are more than an incredible human being——-you are being gifted with second sight by the most Holy Righteous God of the Universe. Thank you!!!
DEI is inherently evil. Diversity is limited to skin color, the least meaningful of all aspects. Equity is a play on words to make one believe it's about equality. The important form of equality is equality of opportunity, which requires equality before the law. Equity is equality of outcome, regardless of input or quality. Inclusion is actually exclusion of law-abiding heterosexual males.
There are so many "professionals" on LinkedIn who have built their entire careers on DEI or ESG. These people do nothing, they are corporate commissars. Abolishing DEI and ESG will be a serious battle, as that "market" is now "worth" hundreds of billions of dollars I'd wager. What's the root cause of all this flush fakery? I suppose at the root of it all: fiat money—but that's another thesis.
‘Everyone does this on the Left, but they pretend that they’re not doing it. I’m doing it on the Right, and I’m explaining to people that I am doing it.” Great job! Honesty is the best policy.
Solana's....."the kind of people who are attracted to bureaucratic power and institutions are naturally left-of-center" is an important truth....and not one to be brushed aside. Getting people with conservative instincts to WANT to be bureaucrats is always going to be a struggle. Bureaucracy's inexorable expansion is in fact arguably the core cancer in advanced societies. "Unherd columnist Peter Franklin reflecting on his own experience of working in two UK government departments comments: “How many of the civil servants that most closely serve this Conservative government are actually Leftwing? Well....I would say approximately all of them”. And it’s not just the UK. Research in the US context finds that “the political beliefs of the median federal government employee lie to the left not only of the median Republican, but also the median Democrat”." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
Actualky, the key may be toward building anti-bureaucratic structures. What percentage of the average bureaucracy does something useful? 50%? 20%? 10%? 2%? Here’s an anecdote: Early in my career (neuroradiologist) I spent 2.5 years at WVU. Gene Staples was the administrator (hospitals had administrators then, not presidents), and he had two assistant administrators, Mike Stein and Bernie Westphal, both of whom freely admitted that they were little more than gofers for Gene. Mike once said that the org chart for WVU hospital was essentially a straight line extending between Gene and each person who worked there. Then place ran like a Swiss watch.
Shortly after I left, Staples retired. David Fine replaced him. Fine’s first moves were appointing an enormous bureaucracy. Within less than a decade the place was in dire enough financial straits that it was necessary to have massive layoffs. The layoffs were so severe that they included something to the tune of 70 ~administrators.~ Fine, an administrator’s administrator—aka grifter’s grifter—ultimately put on the same performance at Tulane and UAB. Similar results, but at least better contained than they were at WVU.
What do all these bureaucrats actually ~do~? If organizations can run without them—like after the layoffs—what did they actually accomplish besides looking like impressive numbers of employees doing what merely APPEARED to be critical work? Everyone has a boss. Even hospital “presidents” generally answer to Boards of Directors. Until and unless the Boards actually do their jobs, or rules are put in place limiting administrative expansion, the David Fines of the world will go on being the Dilbertian pointy-haired bosses that have no idea how best to run hospitals. Or, a la Claudine Gay and Liz McGill, universities.
The sociopaths that usually rise to power in a bureaucracy are usually only interested in their own power, and they are masters of manipulative rhetoric and lying. One major way they signal their power status is by gaining funding for staff expansion.
They are rarely actually competent.
Critics are almost always marginalized, fired or their ideas falsely appropriated and then made meaningless.
MAKE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN
Speaking of which...
Neal Stephenson's novel, Seveneves, contains a very terse, unbelievably accurate--and frightening--statement about how this works. After a conversation between a power-ravenous bitch (who just happens to have been the president of the US in the novel) and a scientist, the scientist is talking with a very perceptive assistant of his:
“It would be easier,” Doob said, “if I could figure out what the hell she wanted.”
“You’re assuming,” Luisa said, “that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.”
Doob pulled his tablet closer and started trying to find Tav’s blog. “To what extent do you imagine she really is reporting facts about the AC? As opposed to creating the reality she describes?” Doob asked.
“What’s the difference?" asked Luisa.
The following research paper is somewhat unique in that it contains some solutions, but the people most needing to understand it, actual "organizational sociopaths", will of course never go along with those solutions.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242338489_Organisational_sociopaths_Rarely_challenged_often_promoted_Why
excerpt:
Abstract
Purpose – Organisations sometimes select and promote the wrong individuals for managerial positions. These individuals may be incompetent, they may be manipulators and bullies. They are not the best people for the job and yet not only are they selected for positions of authority and responsibility, they are sometimes promoted repeatedly until their kind populate the highest levels of the organisational hierarchy.
The purpose of this paper is to address this phenomenon by attempting to explain why it occurs and why organisational members tolerate such destructive practices.
It concludes by proposing a cultural strategy to protect the organisation and its stakeholders from the ambitious machinations of the organisational sociopath.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors develop an explanatory framework by attempting to combine elements of the theory of memetics with structuration theory.
Memetic theory helps to analyse culture and communication of beliefs, ideas, and thoughts.
Structuration theory can be used to identify motives and drives.
A combination of these theoretical approaches can be used to identify the motives of organisational sociopaths. Such a tool is also useful for exploring the high level of organisation tolerance for sociopathic managers.
Findings – Organisational tolerance and acceptance for sociopathic managerial behaviour appears to be
[->] a consequence of cultural and structural complexity.
While this has been known for some time, few authors have posited an adequate range of explanations and solutions to protect stakeholders and prevent the sociopath from exploiting organisational weaknesses.
Reduction of cultural and structural complexity may provide a partial solution.
Transparency, communication of strong ethical values, promotion based on performance, directed cooperation, and rewards that reinforce high performing and acceptable behaviour are all necessary to protect against individuals with sociopathic tendencies.
Originality/value – The authors provide a new cultural diagnostic tool by combining elements of memetic theory with elements of structuration theory.
The subsequent framework can be used to protect organisations from becoming the unwitting victims of sociopaths seeking to realise and fulfil their needs and ambitions through a managerial career path.
Yes good point. there's a kind of Bureaucracy Syndrome isn't there? Problem: things aren't working properly...Solution: we need to hire someone to solve it.....Problem: gets worse.....Solution: more hires.....and so on....and on.....
There ya go. No one wants to admit that the system ~is~ the problem. And that adding more of the wrong parts to it only guarantees that it will get worse.
Keep in mind that when Affirmative Action was first installed in the early 1970s it was declared to be temporary, only lasting 20 years. A compassionate social assist has turned into a metastisized social cancer.
I am working on grants to raise funds for our historical New England church. Just about every application requests a statement about how we are reaching our affirmative action goals. We are located deep in the countryside where there is only a single black family in the area. Will we be disqualified for our demographics? It’s just knee-jerk insanity.
There are conservative black organizations, frequently religious in origin, that might be able to help.
Or Dr. Wilfred Reilly, a black lawyer and anti-"woke" social scientist at a HBCU, who is probably a good entry point to finding black scholars that can inform you of the history of abolitionism, or the lack thereof, in your historical church, then that church's positions on Jim Crow and subsequently the Civil Rights movement.
A number of anti-"woke", "liberal" black scholars have written extensively on why "woke", DEI, etc., are flawed, dangerous schemes that undermine western civilization and morals.
John McWhorter's book WOKE RACISM is one of the best in that genre.
So, your "goal" could be to incorporate the full range of black perspectives on your church's history. (also see https://freeblackthought.substack.com/)
If the granting organizations reject that, you might consider contacting FIRE or FairForAll, "diverse" groups that provide consultation and legal representation to individuals and groups that are facing anti-"white" bigotry from the DEI/woke cargo cult zombies.
Thank you for such a considered response. We will follow up on all if your points.
You are welcome. Good luck with your project.
You're very effective and a perceptive planner. Keep doing what you're doing.
Chris, I support you monthly. You are one of the few who put into action their beliefs. You are a breath of fresh air! A banner of hope and truth. Thank you for all you do!
Thank you!
The shift may be starting. But only starting.
DEI is one of many forms of postmodern neomarxism. It exists because western civilization is disintegrating at a deeper level, from techno-economic disruption, loss of high-social-trust and globalism. See Martin Van Creveld on “The Fate of the State”, 1990s.
What is needed is an anti-fragile “software upgrade” to the cultural operating system to restore high-social-trust institutions. Part of that will require purging things like DEI of psychological pathologies. Tabia Lee tried to do that, and got stabbed in the back.
The radical/extremist “left” always stabs “liberal” and centrist reformers in the back.
The NAACP is asking kids to reconsider going to Florida colleges because of the DEI laws. Strange that Asians and Hispanics are not on board with that. Nor even most native Africans.
This is an endless bizarre and distinctly racist business model.
There are over 100 HBCUs in the country, including the state of Florida. One of my first cousins is the chancellor at an HBCU, North Carolina A&T which produces half of the black engineers in the United States. It also has great sports programs.
I strongly recommend that young prospective black students and black athletes consider attending these schools. Establishing more black-owned institutions, black-owned NBA & NFL teams, and a black group economic base is very viable to fight white racism.
Blacks are very talented people who mostly enrich Jews and white people. The mal-distribution of wealth to whites and its subgroups needs to cease or black people will become a permanent underclass.
It's insane to do the same things over and over again with the same results. Racism is a competitive relationship between groups for ownership and control of resources for wealth and power (a reality!).
Europeans got the headstart with genocide, free indigenous land, free black labor, colonization, apartheid, and Jim Crow.
Forfeiture isn't a viable option. Black people must seriously get into the race with black group economics. Racism is a team sport as clearly illustrated by yesterday and today.
Social integration isn't measurable; it can't be deposited into the bank to compound interest. Black people only shopping at white businesses for goods and services, at the same time getting despised by whites? This doesn't make any goddam sense!
North African Arabs/Berbers were attacking and enslaving "white" Europeans over 1,000 years before the USA came into existence.
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Life is not a zero sum game. Sorry you feel like it is. If white people never existed you still be in the same pickle, probably worse. Asians and Hispanics have no patience.
...why do you need black people? Think about it...take your time.
...and who said anything about getting rid of white people? They're needed as consumers. Lol!!!!
I'm financially independent and don't need whites for necessities to sustain my life. I do have two white maids and one Hispanic maid working at my 8,000-square-foot home and the beach condo. My gardener and handyman are white. Moreover, Asian and Hispanic babes can be impatient for the attention of a black man. Can you salsa, meringue, or cha...cha? What do you personally own and control that could negatively impact me? Bad breath? Lol!!!!
I am so glad to read this Christopher... Again, you put the finer point on who the other side is and how they operate. I am also glad you see the the shift back to the right. That means we have been effectively chipping away at leftist fantasy and standing on more solid foundational concepts once again. That is the begining of restoration and an opportunity to grow freedom and truth as necessary components of being a functional productive human. WIN!
There's a reason why people of influence are shifting to the right. Many people are starting to catch on that America has been swindled. I explain how America got sold a bill of goods in my latest "2026" Substack titled "National Swindle" at https://2026.substack.com/p/national-swindle
Chris, you’re the conduit of the “wisdom of the ages” in thIs manner you successfully analyze, attack, and bring sanity back to an already unmitigated mess in the fabric of our society. So much of our cultural heritage has been savagely attacked with a propensity toward complete destruction of our history. The far left radical elements which have taken over so many of the laws for our protection have turned them to perversions ( releasing criminals in the United States and receiving and welcoming criminals at the southern border)!!! You are more than an incredible human being——-you are being gifted with second sight by the most Holy Righteous God of the Universe. Thank you!!!
To prove the left-progressive-woke are turning America into a freak show just remember that the bearded lady is there mascot.
Meanwhile in Canada: On another of your 'favorite' subjects https://www.rebelnews.com/trans_scandal_how_the_wpath_files_may_have_exposed_the_most_unethical_experiment_of_all_time
DEI is inherently evil. Diversity is limited to skin color, the least meaningful of all aspects. Equity is a play on words to make one believe it's about equality. The important form of equality is equality of opportunity, which requires equality before the law. Equity is equality of outcome, regardless of input or quality. Inclusion is actually exclusion of law-abiding heterosexual males.
There are so many "professionals" on LinkedIn who have built their entire careers on DEI or ESG. These people do nothing, they are corporate commissars. Abolishing DEI and ESG will be a serious battle, as that "market" is now "worth" hundreds of billions of dollars I'd wager. What's the root cause of all this flush fakery? I suppose at the root of it all: fiat money—but that's another thesis.
‘Everyone does this on the Left, but they pretend that they’re not doing it. I’m doing it on the Right, and I’m explaining to people that I am doing it.” Great job! Honesty is the best policy.