tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post3802791749187309457..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: #QotD "The struggle between church and kings would take centuries to resolve... Today, each is as powerless as the other. As people power emerged, we invented politicians. We're not bright."Peter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-39539097274038599482019-01-17T01:53:51.578+13:002019-01-17T01:53:51.578+13:00There is a truism in minerology: The slowest face ...There is a truism in minerology: The slowest face controls growth. The same is true in politics. The start of the bureaucracy and the deep state was in the Middle Ages, as clerks (nominally members of the Church, but only because the Church was the only place to learn to read) began to gain footholds in pretty much every European country. They soon took over a great deal of the grunt work of the governments, leaving the pageantry to the kings and nobles. Turns out, the grunt work has a longer shelflife than the pageantry. Dinwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06138006602385020048noreply@blogger.com