Opinion by Mark Blackham published in today's Dominion Post:
The response to the White Island tragedy is a stark insight into the continued creep of managerialism. It undermines the ability of state services to help citizens, but empowers it to infantilise us.
We're discouraged from acting on our own, and forced to bow to experts. Yet systems and fancy talk prevent experts taking substantive action for fear of career, safety, or arbitrary consequences for taking the "wrong" action. In these environments, there are no career prospects for heroes.
1 comment:
I don't think people are aware of how bad it has become here. The slow cooked frog metaphor. Travel to non OECD countries and it hits like a hammer.
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