officials fever 
"Officials and the philosopher draw their strength from the kind of realism."
Frederick the Great
Dostoyevsky describes in "The Idiot" the typical clerk: Real power is completely bar his whole world from the customer, the form does not issue or deny the train ticket. These treasury of the insignificance induced craving, the author calls "officials fever."
the occasion of the re-exhibited interchangeability of our political "elite" it seems to me one time to be on the civil service and its aftermath reflect.
What Germany (next to the army of millions of foreigners, which until now continuing occupation by the victorious powers, and a tribute to all the world) is holding down the bureaucracy.
office democracy means rule the official. The official, whether on ministerial level or at the counter next door but is a public servant. He is not employee of the state, but a servant . He is the state, which means the political system, required to obey .
But there is this class of servants?
you rule over us, the "normal" people by the bureaucratic arbitrariness served. All the paragraphs and arcane laws that are supposedly there so that we can enforce our rights against the state, only serve the purpose of this arbitrariness to lend an aura of legitimacy.
Franz Kafka has described the condition of the rule of officials very nice example of the "process" in which the main character is told succinctly, she was arrested and charged - which offenses he is accused, it conceals the information. The protagonist must now write down all his life, wondering what he could have committed sin. Similarly, in "The Castle", where the hero of the story who wants to lock does not come out of the village from the castle, and how does in a nightmare on the spot. The younger ones, do not know anymore who was Kafka, remember maybe "conquered Rome Asterix" Asterix at the film in which one of the checks that the Gauls are imposed, the fact is that, in the "house, the crazy" makes the pass A38 should apply ..
We all know that feeling of powerlessness against the bureaucratic complex. The anger is further reinforced that officials understand in very rare cases, some of their field.
The unemployed person who takes the journey to Canossa on themselves, and the Support begging, is faced with a class of people who know his situation at all and therefore can not be assessed. As an employee in public service for them is the real economic world in which power and assertiveness are - and even a good portion of these virtues often not enough - strange. They fart in your chair and pay for itself in time, expect that they will one day accommodation.
expected at each office to the "customer" of the state the same: obese, portly dirt bags that are good for nothing and a real professional displace their broken lives, by harass those seeking help. Abgeschmettert complaints, rather, their own oh-so-impossible situation and complained about the poor supplicant blasphemed who have accidentally brought the wrong form.
inflates In health care, the administration so much in so much that the co-insured in the family insurance Turkish grandparents are against a negligible income. Doctors and other medical personnel, such as midwives are required to produce endless paper waste, because they have to record every shit. For years, physicians in private practice in part started alongside physician assistants administrative professionals set.
Add to that the administrative machinery of the funds and insurance companies, many of them, like the employees in the consortium also, incidentally, are qualified lawyers who have found no place in the legal sector. This contributes unfortunately not just the conditions.
The right most hated officials, are the teachers. Most of them actually choose the profession only because of the holiday and security and such a breed of people find it also in the schools. Who's first civil servants, which can happen no more, therefore, on the back burner worked. Since the children are much more complicated today than earlier, no one can expect more of the teachers that they engage in educational purposes with the "scum".
Woe to him with the official whose "customer" he is, has a problem! Appeal body is a foreign word for the bureaucrats, as well as contact person. Supervisors seem to the officials also have not if they do, they keep their wards, no matter how incompetent and corrupt they are - dare I simply the heretical suggestion that they are at least as incompetent and corrupt as their subordinates.
An entire social class wallows in its inefficiency. And they do not even notice that they are parasites, no, they think they are hard working, honest citizens!
And I come not with "were not all so" or "My clerk is really competent" or "the Klassenlehrr my niece is totally committed." Had to generalizations I recently told my part.
The Post gutgetan privatization, finally you wait no more than three hours if you want to give up a package. The endless series of glitches train would also be a private company does not happen. The state could so, how that is done on lines already in possession of the rail network remain, and lease it to private entrepreneurs, instead of controlling a parastatal GmbH more bad than good (our state is so known not even as a limited liability company) .
And the eternal Genöhle of EON, Vattenfall and co! What would happen if we were to expropriate them and in the power state Hand abgäbe (a demand of the left, if I remember correctly)?
You would always make a written request before the light turns on!
how it looks, dear friends, as you can about the robber capitalism grumble as you want.
The fact that the big companies all state support, whenever they demand it, while the small entrepreneurs to look into the tube, only a marginal note be it. Free competition is not in the system provided BRD!
The "lone wolves" are caught in the rat race of the loan repayment (it's actually just a euphemism for over-indebtedness of the "debt trap" to speak), the adults have colleagues in the Reichstag or the same in Parliament. W as is again at the barn door of the Animal Farm?
Now would I like to come up with a tip on how to successfully resisted the bureaucratic arbitrariness. But I have none. The power the bureaucracy is absolute, so long as it is protected by the system. With a stamp or a stroke, the bureaucrats destroy livelihoods, whole areas dedicate the fall - and enjoy it.
However, if you realize that the power of the bureaucracy finds its limit, where the power of the system stops, it can be seen without risking severe headache, which way in the fight against the bureaucracy for action.
If the bureaucrats no longer protected by a thoroughly corrupt state apparatus will be, then the long Volkeswut choked down on them unloaded. At the small clerk, which the form would not budge, same as the big offenders.
"A specialist is an expert who knows more and more of less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing."
Ambrose Bierce
