"How to reconcile the neutering of nations with the massive growth of bureaucracy? The answer must be, it seems to me, that the bureaucracy does not answer to the nation but to a corporate syndicate."
There is also the strong element that the bureaucracy serves as a both a shop window/training ground for future players in the corporate world. And also the revolving door for existing corporate players at the top of bureaucratic pyramid.
Excellent. Adam Smith (interested parties coming together to form a cartel) and James Burnham (The Managerial Revolution) come to mind. This is interesting: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/09/17/the-great-reset-how-managerial-revolution-was-plotted-80-years-ago-by-cia-neocon/
"How to reconcile the neutering of nations with the massive growth of bureaucracy? The answer must be, it seems to me, that the bureaucracy does not answer to the nation but to a corporate syndicate."
There is also the strong element that the bureaucracy serves as a both a shop window/training ground for future players in the corporate world. And also the revolving door for existing corporate players at the top of bureaucratic pyramid.