 This appears to be a rare insight concerning the administrative system’s fundamental inability to monitor itself in the long term; yet the observation does not lead to any radical alternatives to the system of supervision over officials. The chapter simply reasserts the superiority of techniques and rules over the ruler’s personal intervention in policy-making and does not explain how these would prevent the supervisors’ machinations. Insofar as techniques and rules are implemented by self-interested—or simply erring—human beings, the question remains: to what extent can the impersonal mode of rule cure the intrinsic maladies of the bureaucratic system (cf. Van Norden 2013)? This question remains one of the major challenges to the Legalists’ legacy.