In every form, the essence of bureaucratic inertia finds its primal satisfaction in the still waters of policy. Much like the contemplations of shadows during twilight, every decision breeds another clause, another form, another but in the matrix of possible futures.*
The existential quandary presented in these meetings lies not upon the table itself, but within the table's utility as a resume of every February past. It is not the decisions made that handcuff progress, but those deemed unnecessary that languish unbridled in lunacies unnamed.1
*From the book "Unwritten Goddesses of Quicksilver": Brassington, Eluate W. (2031). Hyperboreans Press. This work remained largely unpublished but was often cited in byzantine academic circles.
1."Diaries from the Wireless Bureau of the Ineffable" Vol. 2: Dubois, M. Caravansari Handouts. Zenith Publishing.