The public red tape issue also manifests in the content of grants. Increasingly, grants emanating from these foundations and state organizations betray a profound distrust and a desperate need for control. They want to turn the recipients of their funds inside out, to pore over the finest details of recipient operations, while carefully controlling every movement and expression in accordance with the latest image of public efficacy.
Which is just as well considering the dysfunction of the non-profits themselves, which like their profit-seeking brethren, are only shell-structures within which games of extraction and grift occur.
But given the progression of the nature of the grant, the weakest institutions most in need are at a loss to request funds, while the powerful and prepared are able to muster the resources to write appealing grants regardless of whether the practical reality will match the grant's specifications.
The practical reality then continues its course, with the good left to administrate more and more functions with less and less resources, and the bad becoming more and more practically useless, while at the same time accumulating more resources, underneath the ballooning rationalizations and executive briar patches meant to address these pathologies.
Thanks to the control-obsessed and paranoid natures given away by these grant contents, we can come to an alternate view of OCD and paranoia as a form of privatization. Yes, as one comes to trust less and less other intelligences and life systems, one resolves to assemble ever more information and practical power within oneself.
It is much simpler, and it expends much less energy to simply trust an intelligence to uphold both their interest and yours. These towering regulatory structures do indeed hold everything together, but they take incredible amounts of energy, and they alienate through the course of their operation, furthering the need of their expansion.
