structure no longer
concerned with the purpose for
which it was designed
Adapted from:
The last mile or so he had been concentrating on suits and the government and decided he no longer much believed in either.
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years.
Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern.
The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.
From the Man Who Gave Up his Name as published in Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison, (Grove Press Collection,: New York, 2016).
Suits.
Congress.
The Courts.
The Executive Branch.
The structure is no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, is probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wear the same suit.
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