The reference to bureaucracy is interesting.
I recently read that the word "bureau" originates in the French and had its
origins in reference to the "counting table"
It could be that there has been an incestuous relationship between
bureaucrats and "social service program managers" While one watches the
money, the other tries to spend it.
The incestuous relationship has, several generations later, produced the
inevitable.
Regarding the main point of the discussion, I wonder if we haven't been
contaminated by the "Media" we consume. The "objective perspective" is so
safe!
We've been propagandised into thinking that "religion", which should be
"binding us together" and "politics" which should be "leading us to a
consensus" in the conduct and organization of our public affairs, are
taboo subjects.
I've just been reading "Crisis of Parliaments" by Conrad Russell (1509 -
1660) and found the following:
Pp 149 Francis Bacon, speaking as though he were a government spokesman,
spoke in favour of religious repression when he said that people may hold
their beliefs freely if they never express them.
The context was the relationship between the Crown and a Parliament that
was trying to achive a working reason for being. At that time, there was
very little debate that was not tied directly to both religion, money and
how to obtain the priveledges connected with both.
Regards
Ed G
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> One reply I get, though, is that the only
> faultless move a bureaucrat can make is to do nothing!!
Gee, and I thought doing nothing was the *main* fault of bureaucrats...
Most of the time they play "bureaucrat Mikado" -- the first one who moves
has lost!
;-)
Chris
Ed Goertzen,
Oshawa
