Scattering Power

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“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)

“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)