From Crises of the Republic, Hannah Arendt, 1972 Harcourt Brace & Company, no longer in business as such and thus reprinted without permission:

p.178: “...In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant…”

p.180 “:...Kohout added that what the world today stands in greatest need of may well be ‘a new example’ if ‘the next thousand years are not to become an era of supercivilized monkeys’ – or even worse, of ‘man turned into a chicken or a rat,’ ruled over by an ‘elite’ that derives its power ‘from the wise counsels of… intellectual aides’ who actually believe that men in think tanks are thinkers and that computers can think: ‘the counsels may turn out to be incredibly insidious and, instead of pursuing human objectives, may pursue completely abstract problems that had been transformed in an unforeseen manner in the artificial brain.’”

p.182: “ … And just when centralization, under the impact of bigness, turned out to be counterproductive in its own terms, this country, founded, according to the federal principle, on the division of powers and powerful so long as this division was respected, threw itself headlong, to the unanimous applause of all ‘progressive’ forces, into the new, for America, experiment of centralized administration – the federal government overpowering state powers and executive power eroding congressional powers. It is as though this most successful European colony wished to share the fate of the mother countries in their decline, repeating in great haste the very errors the framers of the Constitution had set out to correct and to eliminate.”