Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "What is the deep state?" video.

  1. Nonsense. Sorry, but it has to be said. The Cabinet does run the country, and the Civil Service is led by the minister appointed by the Prime Minister. Civil Servants are employees that can be sacked if they fail to perform their duties, as has happened under Starmer, Truss, and other Prime Ministers. Indeed, the Civil Servant's powers and roles are defined and delegated by the Minister for the Civil Service, and the Minister is responsible to the Prime Minister. Go to the back of the class with Liz "Lettuce" Truss, who fired economic experts who could have saved her administration, because she was both arrogant and stupid.
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  2. But, all humans have incentives. If you don't want people with incentives, you'd have to employ robots, except those who programme them would have incentives too. Incentives are part of human emotion. Like the ones that get you out of bed to go to work. To eat when you're hungry, and drink when you are thirsty. Knowing that I'd part of emotional intelligence, and knowing one's own incentives is a cornerstone of wisdom. So, with that out of the way, motivations as incentives are either helpful or unhelpful, and often that depends more on context than some shady conspiracy. Office politics is driven by motivations, and yet for good or ill, the organisational culture is far more deterministic of outcomes. And governments are organisations who need good leadership. And because of their own motivations, often the electorate choose who governs us more in hope than knowledge of whom will be good at leading the country. And no-one is immune from folly. And believing that stuff that goes wrong is down purely to unhelpful motivations is unhelpful in itself. Yes, trust has to be earned, and politics is messy, but we chose the people who mess up. Perhaps then we the voters need to become better leaders ourselves, and develop wisdom ourselves, because in this sense, we do get the politicians we deserve.
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