X-Message-Number: 18950
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Subject: bureaucracy
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 7:14:20 -0400


We've been living in the US for the past 11 years, as Canadians under the NAFTA 
provisions.  We went out to Africa on business for two weeks, and were denied 
reentry into the US.  We have a business in Chapel Hill, NC; we're now living in
a hotel in Toronto while we try to get things straightened out (looks like we 
need to apply under a different visa provision).


The point is, bureaucracy kicks in unexpectedly with changed rules, or changed 
interpretation, or changed enforcement, when you least expect it, and least want
it.


Bureaucracy is going to grow, not shrink, not just through our time of 
suspension but also through our time of reanimation.  The best defense, to my 
mind, is flexibility; the ability to function in different ways, in different 
locations, and to switch you're doing at need.


Cryonics locations in different countries, with sympathetic working 
relationships even if no structural ties, are beneficial here and now.  We will 
need to retain a suspended flexibility for use at the other end of the tunnel.

Thoughts from an always optimistic exile,

Robin HL

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