Corruption is endemic, insidious and CONTAGIOUS. ALL institutions eventually get corrupted. The only (temporary) cure is to demolition them and start fresh. EVERY SINGLE clown in high level management positions at the FBI for the last few decades has proven to be a CRIMINAL SOCIOPATH. EVERY SINGLE ONE. No one can get to their level witho…
Corruption is endemic, insidious and CONTAGIOUS. ALL institutions eventually get corrupted. The only (temporary) cure is to demolition them and start fresh. EVERY SINGLE clown in high level management positions at the FBI for the last few decades has proven to be a CRIMINAL SOCIOPATH. EVERY SINGLE ONE. No one can get to their level without being one. And those who climb the greasy pole DO NOT WANT ANY COMPETENT people working for them. They perceive competence as a threat to their poisons, power and privilege.
It is hard to get technically competent people to go into and succeed in management. The roles largely require two fairly distinct "skill sets". And it is hard to find people who are truly competent in either. People who are competent in both are very rare. I've only known (less than) a handful in my (very) long career. One of the ones I knew won a Nobel Prize. Others I know from history and anecdotes. One such was Vannevar Bush (Sp?) Another (with flaws) was J. Robert Oppenheimer. Charles Stark Draper was another.
I totally agree. This is especially true in law enforcement organizations on the big city and larger levels. Officers and agents are usually people of action, often athletic and energetic and motivated to solve problems. The senior management is part of a public bureaucracy headed by politically motivated people whose personalities enable them to adapt to this kind of organization and move up the hierarchy.
Bureaucracies beat people down. They punish and seek to extinguish initiative, innovation, efficiency, thought, etc. All of those and any independent thought and action are instinctually (and mostly correctly) considered threats to the "well-being"/survival/privilege of the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is, in effect, a living organism. Survival is its number one (and two and three and seven) priority. The denizens of the creature have a symbiotic relationship with it. If it "dies", they die. A natural, inevitable result is that the survivors act more and more like zombies the longer they are captive.
Great description! I hope that Elon and Vivek can get some traction in their efforts to pare back the federal bureaucracies, but I think they are being very optimistic.
Corruption is endemic, insidious and CONTAGIOUS. ALL institutions eventually get corrupted. The only (temporary) cure is to demolition them and start fresh. EVERY SINGLE clown in high level management positions at the FBI for the last few decades has proven to be a CRIMINAL SOCIOPATH. EVERY SINGLE ONE. No one can get to their level without being one. And those who climb the greasy pole DO NOT WANT ANY COMPETENT people working for them. They perceive competence as a threat to their poisons, power and privilege.
Wow. And I thought I was hard-core on this issue!
True, that
It is hard to get technically competent people to go into and succeed in management. The roles largely require two fairly distinct "skill sets". And it is hard to find people who are truly competent in either. People who are competent in both are very rare. I've only known (less than) a handful in my (very) long career. One of the ones I knew won a Nobel Prize. Others I know from history and anecdotes. One such was Vannevar Bush (Sp?) Another (with flaws) was J. Robert Oppenheimer. Charles Stark Draper was another.
I totally agree. This is especially true in law enforcement organizations on the big city and larger levels. Officers and agents are usually people of action, often athletic and energetic and motivated to solve problems. The senior management is part of a public bureaucracy headed by politically motivated people whose personalities enable them to adapt to this kind of organization and move up the hierarchy.
Bureaucracies beat people down. They punish and seek to extinguish initiative, innovation, efficiency, thought, etc. All of those and any independent thought and action are instinctually (and mostly correctly) considered threats to the "well-being"/survival/privilege of the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is, in effect, a living organism. Survival is its number one (and two and three and seven) priority. The denizens of the creature have a symbiotic relationship with it. If it "dies", they die. A natural, inevitable result is that the survivors act more and more like zombies the longer they are captive.
Great description! I hope that Elon and Vivek can get some traction in their efforts to pare back the federal bureaucracies, but I think they are being very optimistic.
A great description of reptiles.
Lavrenti Beria had both-but
was a total psychopath in general. Like you said about Oppenheimer “with flaws”……