"An inanimate machine is mind objectified. Only this provides it with the power to force men into its..."

“An inanimate machine is mind objectified. Only this provides it with the power to force men into its service and to dominate their working life as completely as is actually the case in the factory. Objectified intelligence is also that animated machine, the bureaucratic organization, with its specialization of trained skills, its division of jurisdiction, its rules and hierarchical relations of authority. Together with the inanimate machine it is busy fabricating the shell [Gehäuse] of bondage which men will perhaps be forced to inhabit some day, as powerless as the fellahs of ancient Egypt. This might happen if a technically superior administration were to be the ultimate and sole value in the ordering of their affairs.”

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Max Weber, Parliament and Government in a Reconstructed Germany

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/149948675947