Clean Out Institutions By Holding Them To Their Purpose

Briefly, the bureaucrats gain power via institutions.  Institutions have a stated purpose often found in a charter or founding documents.  As the bureaucracy grows, it begins to violate the original purpose.  They hold onto their authority and paychecks for as long as they can, but at some point, even the water stops running, as folks in Mississippi are learning.

We may very well have to let things fail.  In some cases we may have to destroy it ourselves.  But it's difficult to get voters or customers on the same page.  We could simply remove funding in certain cases- or just leave and try to start over somewhere else.

But it's worth noting we'd have to build new institutions, and we'd have to prevent the nonsense that has happened from happening again.

So wherever possible, it seems helpful to fix some institutions.  This is not easy.  

Basically, you have to make any deviation from the purpose criminal.  Well, it is criminal, in many cases.  With the deplatforming issues we've seen in the last few years- that's only allowed because it's wanted by people in power.  I think it violates the entire premise (and probably the law as well) of how those companies were structured.  It certainly violates the promise they gave the public.

But even in other institutions- it has purpose X.  Someone shows up and starts talking about diversity, inclusion, equity, helping the homeless, etc...  Pretty soon, you have little to no X, and it's going to get worse until there's no X at all.  

We won't get any of the stated good intentions either.  It is, after all, contrary to the policy of bureaucratic growth, to actually fix a problem.  

In many ways, what we actually need is an owner.  An owner knows what he wanted to do in the first place and is quick to notice when money gets allocated to things that are not what he wanted to do. He would then, of course, be quick to get the criminal brought up on charges.

I believe I first though of this back when ESPN started destroying itself.  It seemed obvious to me their original purpose was pretty clear, and would be written down somewhere.  While their descent into hell may not be expressly forbidden by the founding documents, it was very obvious that it was taking away from actually doing the job they had formed to do.  

ESPN is corporate- people have ownership of stock, but it's obviously not truly owned.  No one could stop the nonsense, as the decision makers are bureaucrats.  So a state or federal government would have had to step in, which again, in our society doesn't happen because those are bureaucrats too.  

In any case, if we want to fix any of these institutions, it needs to become obvious deviations from the purpose will not be tolerated.  This would also be the quickest way to sift through the mess, should you suddenly find yourself with enough power to put a particular region back together again.