X-Message-Number: 18950 From: <> 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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18950