202409271842 Status: #idea Tags: #aristocracy #bureaucracy #history # The Occident becoming the Orient Since the late 1800s, and accelerating in the aftermaths of WWI and WWII, the West has become increasingly bureaucratized. Regulations and taxes have increased exponentially. This brings Western society more in line with China and its large, bureaucratic state than the Western states of the 1600s-1800s. As a result, we can learn more about our own society by studying the history and culture of Eastern societies with large bureaucracies. --- # References