Thursday, October 28, 2010

Why government is impossible -part 1

1) Tricky capping jobs:
the country is absolutely full of impossible decisions.
Impossibilites come in so many many forms and shapes - there are moral social, an economic impossible decisions. Decisions that either cannot be called (but have to be made), or else ones that that can only be called after they have been made.
That is decisions that everyone will know the answer from the very magic land of hindsight and judge one by.
more than that these decisons have to be poured into a political system where ones fate is judged every so often from a combined set of mythic lands- hindsith, hope and comfort.
It is no wonder then that government actually cannot make these calls. Know one could.
All they can do is decide the parameters in which the debate and the ineventiable errors occur. That is they can define whether the problem is an excutive or free market one (or one to ignore and lambast). The point is genuine - for these decisions will define not merely the initial choice but the reaction to it, and the almost ineventable (and some level) disgruntlement that follows that choice.
The point of quango (or the free market) is then that they are an open end fall guy.
But the point them also is that they define the opposition to them - othering together otherwise disperate masses in strange alliances. For. for democracy to function the most important thing is always to manage the opposition and keep otl visible, and complex. it must then always form, if not a rival party, at least an organization that political parties can court (and not destory themselves).
Impossible choices then get capped with frameworks that define political life. a fact that really not made the decisions any easier or anymore likely to to good, but does allow for

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