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no-li-ra-su · W249

nolirasu · bureaucracy; rule by nobody; power-structure without personal accountability · ✅

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Domain Philosophy / Politics
Class entity / structure
Type compound
Register formal
First use ANV-001-E (S1080): la-no-li-ra-su ne a-ka-ra — "Bureaucracy — rule by nobody — is the condition of maximum violence." (Arendt, On Violence)

Composition

no (negation) + li (person/social agent) + ra-su (power-structure). Head-final: ra-su is head; no-li (no-person) modifies it = power-structure absent personal accountability.

Definition

no (negation/absence) + li (person/agent) + ra-su (power-structure) = no-person-power-structure = rule by nobody = bureaucracy. Arendt: "The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence." Paradox: precisely because no one is personally accountable, violence can be applied without limit — accountability is the natural constraint on individual violence, and bureaucracy removes it. Parse: [no-li]-[ra-su] = no-person as modifier of power-structure.

no (primitive: negation), li (primitive: person/social agent), ra-su (power-structure class), ka-ra (W222: violence — a-ka-ra is the condition of W249), o-ra (compositional: collective power — the alternative), wi-ra-ki (W241: state terror — the violence W249 maximizes)

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