On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:04, Tim Churches wrote: > Two problems with this. There is no such thing as "our government". > Australia has a three tier system, and in the top two tiers there are > legislative and executive arms, with an often uncomfortable (and often > too comfortable) relationship, and within each of those arms there are > hundreds of departments and agencies with overlapping powers, > responsibilities and goals, all fighting for slices of the same budget > pie. To view such a system as a monolithic entity with some form of > collective consciousness is a bit naive.
Each body consists of multiple organs, each organ of lots of fairly independent cells, and each cell has it's organelles, etc. Yet I see my body as a whole for practical purposes, and if the liver is cirrhotic or the kidneys fail, I'd say the body is sick. If the brain fails to coordinate the rest of the body, the whole body is very sick in my opinion. Likewise, I'd say our government is very, very sick and in this case I think the analogy is perfectly valid and very much to the point. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
