I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The
greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that
Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps
and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But is con-
ceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean,
carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white
collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need
to raise their voice.
-- Preface to 'The Screwtape Letters' by C.S. Lewis
