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Crikey!
Mike (34_40) and I were discussing bureaucrats when we went to visit him, and I said I would send him the quote below from Terry Pratchett, who wrote satire as science fantasy.

His take on bureaucrats:

The Auditors.

The most deeply negative and destructive forces in the cosmos of the Discworld have no fangs, no tentacles, no red glowing eyes. They look like small hooded robes with nothing whatsoever inside. They are the Auditors of Reality, who see it as their job to make sure that the universe functions smoothly and efficiently, without unpredictable interruptions. Above all, they distrust and reject the notion of individual responsibility, since they hold that to have a personality means to have a beginning and an end, and hence to forfeit immortality. The way to be immortal, they maintain, is to avoid living. Therefore they operate entirely by consensus, never permitting themselves to show personal tastes, feelings or opinions, if any of them becomes aware as an individual, it self-destructs instantly. They are the enemies of imagination, creativity and emotion, and hence of life itself.
Mercifully, their power on the Discworld has so far been restricted. On Earth their presence grows daily.

Sir Terry Pratchett.

Rather apt!
And when one self-destructs another immediately appears to take its place...they are immortal!
When you think you've seen the last of one bureaucrat another bugger pops up!