BRACHIARCHY to .BYZ

A CAUTIONARY NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

Do not read the following if you are either eagerly or egregiously offended by forthright observation, free expression, honest wit or harmless word-play.

[NB key roots: archy, cracy (“rule, government, power”) / arch, crat (“ruler”)]

BRACHIARCHY ● strong-arm governance; rule by main force [brachio (“arm”) + archy]

BRACHIOCRACY ● a governing body or bureaucracy with a great many branches [brachi (“branch”) + cracy]

BRACHYARCHY ● rulership characterised by short-termism [brachy (“short”) + archy]

BRAHMINISTERIALISM ● capture of the great offices of US government by the WASP aristocracy [Brahmin (“New England elite”) + ministerialism]

BRAND BEWARENESS ● “caveat emptor”—twenty-first century style [brand awareness + buyer beware]

BRANDITRY ● brand larceny [brand + banditry]

BRATOCRAT ● a little political terror; a rascally ruler [brat + crat]

BRAWLITARIAT ● middle-class Antifa types larping as street-fighting revolutionary toughs [brawl + proletariat]

BRAWLITICIAN ● a political bruiser, or heavyweight [brawl + politician]

BRAWNARCHY ● might is right; a mighty monarchy [brawn + monarchy]

BREPHOPONICS ● child labour [brepho (“child”) + ponics (“toil”)]

BRO’ MONDE ● frat boy culture or milieu [bro’ + beau monde]

BROKENOMICS ● no boom, just bust [broke + economics]

BROLLYGARCHY ● the City of London pinstripe suit brigade—brolly, bowler and briefcase de rigeur [brolly + oligarchy]

BROLLYTARIAT ● second-division City chaps; the Square Mile rank-and-file [brolly + proletariat]

BROMATOPENIA ● a condition of chronic food shortages [broma (“food”) + penia (“deficiency”)]

BROMOCRACY ● a government of stinkers and rotters [bromo (“stench”) + cracy]

BROTHERMENT ● government jobs for the boys; fraternal cronyism or freemasonry in office [brother + government]

BRUINATION ● a people suffering ruin under a brown-shirt regime [bruin (“brown bear”) + ruin + nation]

BRUINOCRACY ● brown rule or ascendancy [bruin (“brown bear”) + cracy]

BRUTILITARIANISM ● the utility of state violence, acknowledged and enacted [brutality + utilitarianism]

BRUTOCRACY ● rule by brute force, bureaucratic fiat or bare fist [brutality + bureaucracy]

BRUTOPIA ● a despot’s paradise [brute + utopia]

BRUXOPENURY ● grinding poverty [bruxo (“grind”) + penury]

BUBBLETHINK ● X-style echo chamber “thought” [bubble + groupthink]

BUBOCRACY ● swollen government; state hypertrophy; bureaucratic bloating [bubo (“swelling”) + bureaucracy]

BUCKONOMICS ● all hail the almighty US dollar!—global reserve currency superbully and hegemon of the international money markets [buck + economics]

BUFOCRACY ● a realm or regime of “toadies” [bufo (“toad”) + cracy]

BUGABOOGIE ● playing on popular fears; fearmongering [bugaboo + boogie]

BUGGERNOMICS ● the pink (or perhaps brown) pound [bugger + economics]

BUGMENTIA ● the mean mental outlook or mindset of the “bugman” [bug + ment (“mind”)]

BULLETOCRACY ● gun law, be it by crims, cops or firing squads [bullet + cracy]

BULLOCRACY ● government by “bull”, or edict; an authoritarian-bureaucratic dispensation [bull + bureaucracy]

BUREAUCRASIA ● rottenness in the corridors of power, among the powers-that-be; weakness of bureaucratic will or self-control [bureaucracy + acrasia (“rottenness”)]

BURYOCRACY ● a society buried under mounds if not mountains of bureaucracy [bury + bureaucracy]

BUYPARTISAN ● with both sides of the political aisle “bought” [buy + bipartisan]

BUYSEXUALITY ● consumer fetishism [buy + bisexuality]

BUZZOCRACY ● a “lively” polity, “vibrant & diverse”™ (translation: a multikulti hotbed of crime, corruption and social dysfunction) [buzz + cracy]

BWANA REPUBLIC ● a heavily sweated third-world country despotically ruled by an indigenous strong-man [bwana (“big boss”) + banana republic]

.BYZ ● a suggested domain name for the registration of websites of labyrinthine navigational complexity [.biz + Byzantine]

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