Jürgen Hubert on Nostr: Government agencies are many things, both good and bad - and one of the things they ...
Government agencies are many things, both good and bad - and one of the things they also are is the institutional memory of society.
Often, it gets a start with some crisis in the past. "There's a fire/a flood/an earthquake/untreated sewage overfilling the city. How do we deal with it?"
Then, after the initial crisis is over, some sort of government agency is formed to deal with this kind of crisis and either be more effective at fighting it, or preventing it from occurring in the first place.
Sometimes the kind of crises that triggered the creation of the agency no longer occur. Often, the agency will take on all sorts of other jobs to expand its mission and grab more power.
But often, the agency just quietly continues to do its work and the type of crisis they are fighting vanishes from the public eye until people question why they ever needed that government agency in the first place.
Which brings me to my usual rant of "people don't respect how complex civilization actually is..."
Often, it gets a start with some crisis in the past. "There's a fire/a flood/an earthquake/untreated sewage overfilling the city. How do we deal with it?"
Then, after the initial crisis is over, some sort of government agency is formed to deal with this kind of crisis and either be more effective at fighting it, or preventing it from occurring in the first place.
Sometimes the kind of crises that triggered the creation of the agency no longer occur. Often, the agency will take on all sorts of other jobs to expand its mission and grab more power.
But often, the agency just quietly continues to do its work and the type of crisis they are fighting vanishes from the public eye until people question why they ever needed that government agency in the first place.
Which brings me to my usual rant of "people don't respect how complex civilization actually is..."