staySAIF on Nostr: You hang around Arab elites/bureaucrats enough you begin to understand the ...
You hang around Arab elites/bureaucrats enough you begin to understand the rationality with which they approach rentierism.
Each actor is woefully aware of the system’s dysfunctionality and correctly assumes that honest conduct or otherwise on their part, it will remain thus.
These states don’t have reformable institutions that can aspire to anything beyond ‘corrupt but okay.’
Everyone, especially their heads of state, know this.
Moroccans tell a story about Hassan II. That when made aware of corruption among his service staff, he responded, “When have you ever known a beekeeper to not taste from the honey?”
A paradigmatic pit. Faux-Weberian states with no notion or desire to inculcate true civic religion
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Each actor is woefully aware of the system’s dysfunctionality and correctly assumes that honest conduct or otherwise on their part, it will remain thus.
These states don’t have reformable institutions that can aspire to anything beyond ‘corrupt but okay.’
Everyone, especially their heads of state, know this.
Moroccans tell a story about Hassan II. That when made aware of corruption among his service staff, he responded, “When have you ever known a beekeeper to not taste from the honey?”
A paradigmatic pit. Faux-Weberian states with no notion or desire to inculcate true civic religion
Covenant_watch (npub1jzt…9j4q)