In his
Essays
, Montaigne wrote that
"we have in France more laws than the rest of the world put together and more than would be needed to regulate all the worlds of Epicurus...While the most desirable laws are the rarer, simpler and general
.
The 16th century philosopher could not then have suspected that the subject of bureaucracy would cross the ages.
But the fact is that even today the excess of standards, decrees and other circulars is debated.
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No one disputes that texts are needed to ensure the safety of children, to protect fauna and flora or even to secure the construction of industrial buildings.
The problem is their proliferation, their juxtaposition, which lead to incoherence and inapplicability.
We have seen this recently with the multiplication (three in less than a week) of test protocols and class closures at school or more previously with those for the resumption of work in companies, after the first confinement, which …
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