[Leica] IMG: Russian Train

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

I read a short story once.

A town, far away.

City hall had an atrium. On one side there were buttons by which you 
could record your approval rating of the various officials, including 
mayor.

On the other side was a rack, with medals of office. If you wanted to 
become mayor, for example, and the post was vacant, you could at your 
leisure pick up a medal, hang it around your neck and you would have 
all the authority and power of that office as long as the medal was 
on your chest. If you took off the medal, the authority, power and 
other perks were gone.

As long as the general approval rating stayed reasonably high, you 
were fine. If the approval rating sank too low, the medal exploded, 
and the office became vacant again.

Exceptions excluded, I've always felt that the types of people who 
sought public office are exactly those that shouldn't be allowed near 
that office; a variation on the theme that any club that would have 
me as a member is not one that I could stand being a part of.

Exceptions again; the LUG in particular.





At 6:05 AM +0100 6/17/09, Frank Dernie wrote:
>In general these are the type of people who want power hence stand 
>for office. Normal people do not normally seek power.
>FD
>
>On 16 Jun, 2009, at 20:00, George Lottermoser wrote:
>
>>  It's like we keep giving all this money and power
>>  to street thugs, gangsters, psychopaths, psychotics and criminals.
>
>

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