[UA] The Functionary

[Max Cairnduff]

Hi all,

Is there an Avatar of the Functionary anywhere?

I'm not really thinking of the Indispensable Servant, more of the faceless bureacrat.  The guy at the Passport Office who makes you stand in line three hours then tells you you're in the wrong line anyway.  The Soviet apparatchik who processes housing applications but puts yours to the bottom of the pile if you have the wrong stamp on it, the Italian tax assessor who assigns penalties to you regardless of why you might have been late with your return.

The impersonal bureaucrat, the faceless functionary, we all meet these people and have frustrations dealing with them.  I'd say it's one of the great archetypes of the 20th century just past.


Does it have an archetype?

Best,

Max



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