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[SDMAIL Chip Hines]

Posted by  "Chip Hines" <hines.chip at gmail.com>

I must have missed the original note from Peter, but I find a
resonance with the "why change resistance is actually a good thing"
In my eons as a US federal bureaucrat, I came to understand that as
wildly frustrating as it can be, the way the US government bureaucracy
"resists change" was designed in by the founding fathers for the
purpose of both preventing what they saw as the tyranny of a monarchy
and to avoid as much as possible rushing into change when emotions are
high.  The Federalist Papers discuss this concept - for example, they
felt that  by having political appointees with their own agendas there
would be infighting and resistance which would help stop the
consolidation of power.  Probably an oversimplification of their
arguments, but quite a revelation to see how this did come to be, and
that as Stephan says below, the designers had an idea of how things
should be, and took steps to add checks and balances that would help
prevent moving too far from the hoped for outcome.

chip
Posted by  "Chip Hines" <hines.chip at gmail.com>
posting date  Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:48:28 -0400