What we are talking about is the bureaucracy. I mentioned that bureaucracy is the greatest evil ever created by mankind and that got Steven L. Taylor over at OTB animated.
Bureaucracy is, of course, a necessary evil. The form itself is not evil but as the 4th branch of government it amplifies and facilitates the basest natures of man. The very natures our 3 Constitutional branches were devised to thwart. Unfortunately, those branches abdicated their duty to oversee and control the 4th branch giving it vague authorities and independence of action.
Then just as robots in all the sci-fi books and movies, sometime in the 1920-1930s, the bureaucracy became self-aware, decided it knew what was best for the People and would save them from the messy freedoms that often caused the People to make less than optimal decisions. Since that time, bureaucracy has grown, self-replicated, and assumed more control in their efforts to create a utopia for the People.
We have now reached a point where our technocratic overlords have become a direct threat in their consumption of resources and we must fight to regain control.
