1st Cicero lived in the time of empires so he used that word. Does this exact wording change much in our current context?
2nd What if I call Europe a Bureaucratic Empire? Would you agree?
Discussion
The creeping complexity of the legal system and the bureaucratic state do concern me, yes. They can provide the illusion of stability until they suddenly don’t. The problem is the alternatives also have their own glaring deficiencies.