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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123230)1/15/2004 2:54:04 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Nadine, keeping great records is what control freaks do. Unfortunately for them, plenty of people abuse the scrupulous record-keeping for their own purposes and the process becomes more important than the reality.

For example, the police patrolling the Washington Monument for dirty weapons of mass worrying no doubt ticked the box where it says "checked for any packages lying around" every 10 minutes, but by crikey, they were actually just ticking the box and not actually checking that things were hunky dory.

That's what happens with record keeping. Anywhere I've seen scrupulous records, that's what's happened. Bureaucrats and bossy britches and power freaks love control and process. That's just how they are. Which doesn't mean others don't use the process for their own purposes.

The world is full of forms to fill in and boxes to tick. They are just pieces of paper, not reality.

The New Zealand government thinks it's quite a record keeper too, but the scamster activities in the welfare system are of cosmic proportions now. 10% of the population is on the take, unable to provide for themselves. We have process galore with more than half the population working in government employ. Ticking boxes, recording everything, controlling everyone. It's a joke. Money goes missing here much more than weapons of mass destruction. But it's the same process.

Which isn't to say keeping good records is a bad thing. Having the government running everything and keeping the records is the bad thing. They care about domination and process, not profits or customers.

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