When I do contract work with the government I make it clear I’m against their rules, but follow all the rules to a T. Which drives them crazy, because they are publicly for the rules but want me to break them to keep things moving.
Bertolt Brecht’s “A Worker Reads and Asks”
In 1935 while in exile Brecht wrote his poem challenging the aristocracy of history. The belief that events and the entire of human existence occurs because of a great man, the dear leader. In contemporary moments, politicians and influential people are looked at with...
