[pp.int.general] State men/women are like untouchable ghosts

[Andrew Norton]

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On 12/27/2012 1:46 PM, mattias.bjarnemalm at piratpartiet.se wrote:
> Nothing of the text even vaguely resemble the situation of things in
> Sweden. Especially since we have a social mobility that allows any and
> all parts of society to become civil servants (or state men/women). Our
> civil servants don't have life contract and it is not uncommon to move
> from the public to private sector (or vice versa) during ones career.

Even more so in the US, where we have a 'revolving door' between them.
In fact it's the de-faco underpinning of the 'iron triangle'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_triangle_(US_politics)

> 
> And our universities are free and open to all EU-citizens. Not very
> exclusive.
> 
> I have little knowledge if this bleak picture even holds true in the
> authors own country, but trying to expand it to a universal truth
> inevitebly made it false. It just don't holds up as a generalization.

doesn't sound like it. It sounds like another neat little picture of the
authors concoction, deriving from a small subset of observations and
assumptions, much like, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, you can derive the
entire state of the universe from a small piece of fairy cake (and thus
create the  total perspective vortex)

Andrew

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