Proceedures are like a web of safety nets. Companies want to avoid risk, so they focus on making the nets tighter and tighter. Eventually, the nets are so densely woven that the possibility of injury for any tightrope walker dancing on the line becomes nil. You can see while this is only for the best interests of the circus as a whole (they can’t afford to replace tightrope walkers all the time) and for the tightrope walker himself (he won’t get injured) it saps his vocation of any risk, excitement, and thrill, and effectively eradicates everything that made the circus a circus and exciting place to be in the first place.

Such is the field of pencil-pushing work today—except the massive corporations have captive audiences, so in spite of the incredibly flaccid shows they put on, the crowd can’t help but pay for a ticket anyway.