This tree is wired for sound light. June 2010. Today is my first day in a new job. I have - as Max Weber boldly predicted many moons ago - been drawn into the stahlhartes Gehäuse ! Yes, I am to be a Bureaucrat! While not quite a ' man in Whitehall ', I have been drawn into administering the "polar night of icy darkness". Rational calculation has now reduced me to a cog in the bureaucratic machine. Of course, going into this with the realisation already assured, I will no doubt be seeking to transform myself to a bigger cog. I hope that there is cake.