Bureaucratic Rituals: Time for Reform

There are some rather ridiculous bureaucratic rituals out there that seem to be employed or enforced for no practical reasons at all, other than to impose arbitrary authority. One old example was that the French government for its accounting continued to use Roman numerals for some one hundred years after England wisely gave up on them. Some bureaucrats are less bureaucratic than others. And then there is the utter nonsense about changing the clocks from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time. The former was introduced by authoritarian Germany in 1916 on the notion that it would reduce citizen hardships due to WW I. In free countries it was reimposed during WW II, and as this writer recalls it would help the farmers get the crops harvested. Now it is done simply to impose authority. A useless but intrusive ritual.