This means that when we try to reform health, safety, education, government, finance, we will look to new technology, new training, more programs, better planning, more management, and better individuals in leadership positions. All these efforts are accurately considered the protocols of empire. They are “royal protocols” according to Walter Brueggemann –– the word protocol to indicate that what is occurring is not on the shoulders of particular leaders, but a set of practices and structures larger than any individual and produced with all of our participation.