Microregulation, like micromanagement, does not work. The service that completes the paperwork perfectly are not making anything or seeing anyone. The manager who regulates every aspect of their worker’s performance demotivates.
In addition, the assumption that centralized regulators would have unique expertise has proven unfounded. Government bureaucracy is increasingly a kludgeocracy (a word coined by the liberal political scientist Steven Teles), mindlessly enforcing absurdly precise rules by threatening ruin upon anyone who resists.
But regulators are actually thin on the ground, unequipped to deal with mass — and subsidized — civil disobedience. When a spotlight is shined on their tyrannical behavior, even courts will rebel.
Case in point: In 2012, the Supreme Court in Sackett v. EPA ruled that regulators couldn’t impose a $75,000 per day fine until the agency, in its own good time, acted on a landowner’s challenge to its ruling that his landlocked two-thirds of an acre parcel was a wetland.
The Progressive push to give politically insulated bureaucrats power to impose detailed and often incomprehensible rules was a product of the industrial era, a time when it was supposed that experts with stopwatches could design maximally productive assembly lines.
That idea is out of date in an information era, when expertise is widely dispersed and readily accessible to citizens acting on their own initiative and inspiration. Bureaucracy’s time has passed, Murray argues, and its tyranny is ripe to be overthrown by creative Madisonian civil disobedience.
The trouble is that corrupt institutions cannot reform themselves. This is a list of things that Vox suggests the Church of England do to revive itself. I would add you can sum these up in one word: Repent. And that Vox should choose 1900 not 1950 as the final date of innovation.
I have a simple seven-point plan that will absolutely reverse the trend and revive the Church of England:
- Publicly repent accommodation with the world.
- Announce the Counter-Accommodation, a house-cleaning movement that throws out every reform and innovation since 1950 and openly rejects the false idea that tolerance and inclusion are Christian virtues or that unrepentant sinners are welcome as members of the Church body.
- Excommunicate every bishop and former bishop who voted for the ordination of women.
- Excommunicate every bishop and former bishop who voted for the ordination of homosexuals or officiated over a same-sex ceremony.
- Defrock every female and homosexual bishop or priest.
- Suspend every bishop or priest who publicly endorses social justice, tolerance, inclusivity, or ecumenicism.
- Preach the Word of God precisely as it is communicated through the King James Bible.
If the Church of England will not do this, it has no reason to exist and fully merits its extinction. Observe that the long term results have been exactly what the conservatives who opposed these reforms have been predicting all along. When a Christian church rejects the Word of God and hares after worldly approval, it is not long for this world.
The trouble that the Anglicans have is twofold. The first is the bishops and priests who voted for the ordination of women now include women, and are the majority, and the number of gay priests is increasing. The second is that the bible believing members of the faith have either crossed the Tiber to the English Ordinate or have moved in with the Calvinists — in the USA they have affiliated with African Anglicans, and disavowed the Episcopalian Church. They have already disobeyed. They have voted with their feet.
And the Anglican church is dying, for the Tories no longer believe — since they are exactly the same power crazed technocrats who infest the Left, with the same degrees — and the evangelicals have these odd scruples about fornication, divorce, theft and pederasty, and this is now called intolerance, and they have been asked to go.
There will be an accounting. If not in this life, the next. But we are to remain faithful. We don’t need to be rude: we should indeed pray for our rulers.
But not bow down at their idols or sing the praises of a strange and false God.