Your moral and intellectual superiors and experts feel fit to run your life. We regular people know that they put their pants on one leg at a time just like us, and that we probably have more real life experience and practical sense than they do.
A review of The Bureaucrat Kings (h/t Powerline)
In the 19th century Alexis de Tocqueville described the phenomenon of bureaucracy almost before it had revealed itself. He called it centralized administration, which he considered the new form of despotism that democracies must fear if they are to remain free. This democratic disease had not yet infected the Jacksonian America he examined; in fact, he praised America for its burgeoning civil and political associations, and for the absence of centralized administrative rule. The Constitution and a federal system had allowed for a decentralized political and administrative system of government, which inhibited the rise of the administrative state. Nonetheless, Tocqueville in Democracy in America warned against abandoning those traditional political and social institutions that had prevented its growth...
While forging a somewhat different path, this reminds me of The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
