Conspiracy theory #902 Somewhere a team of Budweiser, Miller and, in our less important states, Coors, reps are breaking pencil tips as they create new, ridiculous corporate and institution structural rubes, the frustratingly obvious limitations of which guarantee a steady flow of relief-seekers and rant-wielders to pubs and swill stores.

Case in point: The Carver style of government, currently the modus operandi of choice in my employer's arsenal.

Yes, let's take an already cumbersome top-down structure and "simplify" it by making it so vertical, so without a base that decisions cannot get to the top (where they require clearance) or back to the bottom without threatening to topple the operation. Think pyramid, now transfer same weight to a single, thin, unbending thread on which we all cling and cannot let tip. Everyone moves more slowly, for the structure feels shaking. We're all looking down and hoping to land on the idiot below us. We do less. We credit more. Then, we drink.
-cK  ¶ 1:38 PM