Atdtda22: [42.1ii] A truly blessed release, 608

[Paul Nightingale]

[608.37-609.1] "Any last-minute toadying, lad, better get it in while you
can, coz me term's almost up, yes it'll be back to Associate Cohen for
little Nick Nookshaft, a truly blessed release, and the turn of the next
poor 'sap' to enjoy this thankless grovelling before the contempt of a High
Directorate who only go on reducing one's budgets year after year ..." etc.

Or: the King is dead, long live the King.

See Weber on bureaucracy vs charismatic structures:

In contrast with all forms of bureaucratic administrative system, the
charismatic structure recognises no forms or orderly procedures for
appointment or dismissal, no 'career', no 'advancement', no 'salary'; there
is no organised training either for the bearer or charisma or his aides, no
arrangements for supervision or appeal, no allocation of local areas of
control or exclusive spheres of competence, and finally no standing
institutions comparable to bureaucratic 'governing bodies' independent of
persons and of their purely personal charisma. Rather, charisma recognises
only those stipulations and limitations which come from within itself.

[...]

The continued existence of charismatic authority is, by its very nature,
characteristically unstable: the bearer may lose his charisma, feel himself,
like Jesus on the cross, to be 'abandoned by his God', and show himself to
his followers as 'bereft of his power, and then his mission is dead, and his
followers must hopefully await and search out a new charismatic leader.

From: Max Weber, 'The Nature of Charismatic Domination' in Selections in
Translation, ed WG Runciman, Cambridge UP, 1978, 227, 229.

Weber's take on modernity included the appearance of bureaucratic
organisation and different forms of authority; what he called rational
authority is delegated. One might speculate at the relationship between this
kind of formulation and, elsewhere, in the cultural sphere, the separation
of an elite (or even avant-garde) from the so-called mass.