Wednesday 23 February 2022

Recruiting For The Managerial State

Last year I received a questionnaire from a local politician asking for what I considered the most important issues. So I put down stopping mass immigration and multiculturalism, I also put down stopping the teaching of ideology in schools. I actually received a reply, which mentioned my concerns about ideology in schools, but nothing on the other issues. I must admit that I was surprised to get a reply at all, particularly one that mentioned even in passing an issue that I had raised. I was not surprised that mass immigration or multiculturalism was not mentioned, I knew that. 

When it comes to politicians it doesn't matter who you write to or speak to, they all give us the same generic answers to nearly all of our questions. They seem to think with one mind and that's because they do. Think about your member of Parliament, if you go to their website you will see that their life experience looks remarkably similar. 

1. Comfortable upbringing 

2. University 

3. Joining a political party while at university 

4. Being recruited to work in an existing politicians office 

5. Being selected for political office

Rare indeed is it to see a politician who hasn't followed these 5 steps. All politicians are selected, not by you, not by some local committee, but by the people who run the political parties. At each of those 5 stages the future politician is assessed. Assessed for what?

For the correct opinions, for the correct view of the world, for the ability to fit in to the party. Politicians seem like carbon copies of each other because that's the way that they are selected.     

But we see this phenomena all over, everywhere we go we seem to see people who are interchangeable, people without individual characteristics. Just like the politicians these people are recruited via a similar process. At each stage they are assessed for correct characteristics, the right attitudes and finally the right skills. Once it becomes accepted then you find that nearly every organisation recruits like this, 'it's the industry standard' . And of course it's correct because everyone else is doing it.

The system thinks that recruiting people that think alike will protect it from harm. In the short term I think that is correct, but over time it will hollow out every organisation that uses it. When everyone thinks the same how do you think your way out of a problem that no one else can solve?

I think of long serving politicians, like Sir Robert Menzies or Margaret Thatcher, both successful and long serving politicians. Who when they left office left behind very bad replacements. Because it was not in their interest to have strong capable people replace them. Which strikes me as a similar problem to recruiting a cohort of yes men and women. There is no value in training a better or a even competent replacement, they might destroy your career and if they do what do they have to fall back on?

Like the rest of the Liberal system, this all continues until the money runs out.

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Friday 11 February 2022

One Hundred And Seventh Month

Not a very impressive month, maybe my worst ever, to be honest I haven't the heart to look. On the other hand I hope this is the worst month, I wouldn't want to have done this bad in the past. Two posts is all I've  done, a very sorry state.

Surprisingly I've had some very good days this month, unsurprisingly I've also had some terrible days. In the past month I have had 2,716 visitors, more than last month and that is because I had 3 days over 300. With my best day having 436 visitors, on the 22 January. My worst day was 3 days earlier on the 19th January when I had a mere 16 visitors. 



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209
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86
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70
Bulgaria
52
Canada
40
Hungary
40
Israel
36
Brazil
35
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29
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18
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13
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12
Romania
12
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10
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6
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6
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6
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