How to tell a story

How to tell a story

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Majority Rules

By and large, it seems to me that
there are more good individuals
in the world than good groups
of people. Whenever people come
together in a formal way
into clubs and committees
into organizations and companies
into corporations and governments

there's a shift in the moral landscape
people become profiles
lives become lists
tragedies become talking points
and a bureaucrat is born.

Thoreau saw this.
He stared bureaucracy
straight in the eye
and said

I have no need to join
I already am
a majority of one.