Predictive History
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Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy
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October 11, 2025
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1:03:17Now PlayingNotes and References:
1. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
2. The Trial by Franz Kafka
3. Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
4. For this talk, I relied heavily on the work of Michael Zanini. His Substack is here
5. The article on the ballooning bureaucracy of Swedish higher education can be found here
6. The CNN article on how USC punished the professor is here
7. The article on the Stratford bankruptcy can be found here
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