#bureaucracy #power these pieces of paper can wield enormous power As we humans become more powerful, so our intersubjective beliefs become more consequential for the world outside our information networks. when a bureaucracy puts a label on you, even though the label might be pure convention, it can still determine your fate. In bureaucratic societies, the lives of ordinary people are often upended by unidentified officials of an unfathomable agency for incomprehensible reasons.