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Kafka novel Jiang uses as a model of a society where bureaucrats process innocent people because procedure has replaced meaning.
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The Trial
Kafka novel Jiang uses as a model of a society where bureaucrats process innocent people because procedure has replaced meaning.
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Kafka's The Trial becomes Jiang's literary model for bureaucracy: a system arrests innocent people and wages pointless prosecutions because it needs activity even when everything is meaningless.
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"...before World War One this is his most famous book called the trial okay I'm not sure if you guys have read this book..."
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"...not know why he's been arrested and then he's put on trial and the judge doesn't tell him what he did wrong okay and..."
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"...but not do real work okay and that's the message of the trial eventually society becomes so bureaucratic that the bureaucrats only think about..."
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"...of the Cave, it's interesting because it's really Plato's reimagining of the trial of Socrates. For him, his mentor Socrates, who was forced to..."
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"...create conflicts within the Catholic Church very, very soon, mainly in the trial of Galileo. Okay. So. Because science asks this question. How do..."
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"...the argument that it was Galileo's personality that was responsible for the trial. For his trial and downfall. It was his hubris. It's a..."
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"So it almost seems like this entire trial was a cruel joke put on by the people of Athens to teach Socrates a lesson,..."
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"...vote, okay? I mean, Socrates was basically being a jerk during the trial and they still, they voted him guilty, but it was a..."
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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