“Jobsworth “ is a British colloquial word derived from the phrase “I can’t do that, it’s more than my job’s worth”, meaning it might lose the person their job: taking the initiative and performing an action, and perhaps in the process breaking a rule, is beyond what the person feels their job description allows.
Very good commentary. Sometimes a view from the field instead of from within the forest gives us proper perspective. Well articulated.
This can be said of too many that wear a badge and a gun in the USA these days. The nonsensical, magical, and illogical belief that these people are always right just because they have a badge is first a delusion on the part of those wearing the badge and it is also a false belief on the part of so many who wish to believe the police are always right just because they're police.
And this false religion is causing quite a rift in the USA.
Incredible-—and from Frederick Forsyth,no less.
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“UNLESS I am much mistaken, and I dearly hope I am, there is something happening in this country that I find deeply troubling.
I refer to a sort of rift or schism that is developing between the governors and the governed. As for the first-named, I mean the Establishment. There is nothing fictional about the Establishment. Every society across the time zones and the ages has had one. It is not a body with a head office or a president but that does not mean it does not exist....”
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As for the US....same as the above....and the rift is RAPIDLY growing.
the creed of the coward and the bullyâ€, indeed. Exactly so . . . BEEP!
This seems to be true for all western societies. It is getting easier and easier to be conspiratorial about what is happening in our world.
Although I could do a web search -- does anyone have the background about the Sgt Blackman incident? Maybe it is well known in the U.K., but I don't recall anything about him.
Bkmrk.
This is, I think, a natural cycle in societal evolution and is recognized as the cause of most revolutions and uprisings. ‘Usually’ democracies find the solution(s) without resorting to mass bloodshed but not always. The freezing of an impenetrable overclass starts earlier with monarchies and dictatorships but all societies tend to have nepotistic and cultural imperatives to cause them to desire locking out outsiders.
My hope is that our country, the USofA, may be able to break the 85 year cycle of liberal-progressive domination of society and government. After all, the Wilson-FDR revolution was the breaking of the ossified GOP-Business domination of the previous 75 years. It is time for US to break THEM and open society once more!
Frederick Forsyth? Really? If so I am astonished he identified himself as a member of the ten percent.
I am not familiar with Frederick Forsyth - this piece is very well-composed. Impressive.
Beautifully written. Love Frederick Forsyth.
Thanks for the link.
The temporary cure is easy...rule of law by elected officials. Breaches of law must be punished swiftly and judiciously. All bureaucratic non-elected bodies cut. Long term, Jesus Christ is the only answer
bump for later read.