Democrary is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the Narcotics Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more of it's kind, until it chokes the host if not controlled or excised. Bureaus cannot live without a host, being true parasitic organisms. That is the road to follow. The building up of independent units to meet the needs of the people who participate in the functioning of the unit.
Bureaus die when the structure of the state collapses.
They are as helpless and unfit for independent existences as a displaced tapeworm, or a virus that has killed the host. A sluggish river jumping with vicious fish, vast weed-grown parks where boys lie in the grass, play cryptic games. Not a locked door in the City. Anyone comes into the your room at any time. The chief of Police is a Chinese who picks his teeth and listens to denunciations presented by a lunatic.