Government has made America inept.
 

This is a very interesting and I feel illuminating article from The Daily Beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ica-inept.html

While government is often portrayed as some evil entity bent upon domination it's travesties and it's failures are nearly always the result of blind obedience and enforcement of regulations. "Mindless bureaucracy" .

“You may be expelled for homicide.”

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We will most probably not bang our heads at least over this thread, August. :shucks: With only some minor rewriting, the article could be used to describe realities over here as well.

These symptoms will become much worse, and at increasing pace. That is the nature of bureaucratic systems: they must expand, else they collapse - and with them those precious power structures.

Great article! Now I need to read all three of his books. :sunny:

I believe that it's much the same wherever you find bureaucracy. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister are great satires of the effect of years of behaviour driven by the decisions of the past.

To those who believe there is some shadowy group of elites secretly pulling strings behind the scenes:

I have seen an increasing tendency for this kind of thing my whole life. It's maddening, like pushing water uphill. It is not just an American problem. I wonder, have we painted ourselves into a corner?

:rotfl2: :rock:

Covering up aliens conspiracies are easy. Ruling on the other hand...

Nothing like being stuck between a rock and a hard head place.:hmmm::-?

Yes, that quote is right also, it aims at what I try to summarise as the "self-dynamic of the system".

But abuse by intended decisions also are a reality, at the top levels of hierarchies. That can be the top of the complete system-pyramid, or the top level within one sub-levelled branch of the hierarchy.

Post of the month thus far :)

That's because you don't have the most democratic government in the world :O:
We have elections EVERY year now :/\\!!

That is what already Mao said, when asked for democracy.
"I have elections evely molning"


Nice article! Thanks.

LOL :)