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...he capitalist economy follows its own immanent laws, the less accessible it is to any imaginable relationship with a religious ethic of brotherliness. Ultimately no genuine religion of salvation has overcome the tension between their religiosity and a rational economy. Weber, a liberal, interactionist, political theorist saw the problem of the modern world as the triumph of rationality over traditional and charismatic authority and forms of social organization. Bureaucracy was the highest form of rational political organization, being impersonal and formal, with established positions and relationships governed by written rules and established procedures that were documented in office files and used as the basis for resolving disputes. Authorities developed these rules as a means of adapting traditional procedures or routinizing procedures developed by charismatic leaders. Thus legal rationality was able to to incorporate the stability of tradition, as obedience to law become habitual, and the flexibility of charisma, as new rules could be developed when the old rules no longer were effective. The problem is that by eliminating human fraility (emotion and habit, beliefs and values, interests, etc.) and replacing it with blind obedience (value rational obedience to law as an end in itself), rationality might become an iron cage. ...