The eleventh chapter of Genesis tells us how the World-Wide Bureaucracy began on the Plains of Shinar. The earliest bureaucrats promised people, “We can save ourselves. If you do what we tell you, we can build a tower to Heaven.”
Impressive plans were drawn up to begin the first private-public partnership. Speeches were made. People were congratulated on having such wise leaders.
One man can be imagined to have made a commonsense suggestion: “No matter how tall a tower we build, it will never be as high as, for instance, Mt. Ararat. If we can get ourselves to Heaven by climbing, wouldn’t we save a lot of bother just by ascending Mt. Ararat?”
That man disappeared, not only in the written record.
Soon, the beginnings of the World-Wide Bureaucracy were in place. Bricks were made, and laid in asphalt. Then, as now, various viscosities of hydrocarbons had been programmed to ooze upwards from where they were continually produced deep in the earth’s crust.
The Loving Programmer looked down on The Tower of Babel. “Well, if My free-will programs want to waste their efforts on architectural idols, they might as well do it everywhere.” So, He erased from their minds the common language with which all the human programs after Noah once communicated.
People moved away, forming into different linguistic groups. The groups soon formed various governments. Growing governments gave more bossy people the opportunity to join the growing numbers of the World-Wide Bureaucracy as each linguistic group began to form bigger and bigger governments.
In a few generations, World-Wide Bureaucrats in China began building walls. In Egypt, they built pyramids. Babylonian bureaucrats cranked out ziggurats. All the governments had public relations departments with the job of assuring people: “Things are better than ever.” Busy, busy, busy.
The process continues.
