"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Bureaucratic Mindset
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2011-01-21 03:00
It’s not that Nicholas Majett is a bad guy, or particularly stupid, or indifferent to the community he’s working for. He self-consciously describes himself as a civil servant, which suggests that he at least recognizes that local government should do more than pay his salary.
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