note 020109

Most of my life has been spent in federal service in one form or the other. The young and talented gravitate to federal service from idealism of making a difference, or prospects of quickly becoming powers behind the throne.

The federal government gives every appearance of moving and shaking but the movement is circular and the shaking is bureaucratic fear of new, innovative ideas. All governments ultimately fall victim to their own propaganda of greatness. Governments are where the clueless many plagiarize the creative solutions of the few. Governments, foreign and domestic, employ “spin”, create foreign threats and generate domestic enemies to deceive their respective polities on the governments’ inept efforts to govern. Governments’ ethical standards fall victim to rationalization that maximum benefit to self is non-compliance in the best interest of the state. Whether a theocracy, democracy or autocracy the ultimate enemies of governments are the people they govern.

After a long and frustrating career in government I looked forward to a time when I could publish my thoughts under my own name. In the last few months I’ve discovered my mortality, of no great interest to most, and realized that I’ve waited to long to accomplish all that I’d planed to say and do.

The point to this is that these polemics are about to become much broader in scope reflecting my experiences and observations of macrocutures. It is probable that I will wander from subject to subject as current news trigger my interest. In short this is about to become more of a journal than academic dialectic.