The forward progress of bureaucratic mechanization is irresistible … When a purely technical and faultless administration … is taken as the highest and only goal, then on this basis one can only say: away with everything but an official hierarchy which does these things as objectively, precisely, and ‘soullessly’ as any machine … The technical superiority of the bureaucratic mechanism stands unshaken … Imagine the consequences of that comprehensive bureaucratization and rationalization which already to-day we see approaching…[By rational calculation] the performance of each individual worker is mathematically measured, each man becomes a little cog in the machine and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is whether he can become a bigger cog … It is strikingly reminiscent of the ancient kingdom of Egypt, in which the system of the ‘minor official’ prevailed at all levels … We are proceeding towards an evolution which resembles that system in every detail, except that it is built on other foundations, on technically more perfect, more rationalized, and therefore much more mechanized foundations … It is still more horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger ones … The passion for bureaucracy … is enough to drive one to despair. It is as if in politics … we were deliberately to become men who need ‘order’ and nothing but order, who become nervous and cowardly if for one moment this order wavers, and helpless if they are taken away from their total incorporation in it. […]