The post is spot on. That institutional knowledge is what sustains these large and complex organizations.
As someone with a quarter century in DHS, Treasury, and DoD, I've learned that the first months in any government organization is best spent finding the SMEs and digging up every key policy paper, training doc, and internal URL to build that knowledge base and be able to be effective as soon as possible. Failure to do that in these institutions is hard to live down.
This is an excellent primer on the subject, thank you. Just pulling the lens out a bit further, institutions exist in society, and human society is political. The fact that an institution has survived for decades can be taken as a sign that the society in general has supported and even relied on the structure and benefits said institution provides. That was all actually a question on my part. I think it applies in the most part to democratic society and the institutions thereof that survive for long periods, say in generational terms. What’s happening now, at this moment, is an attempt to cut off generational knowledge as well as institutional knowledge, taking into account the simultaneous attacks on education and culture and imposing a blatantly hypocritical theocratic ideology.
Supporting State institutions isn't liberal. These institutions have been repressing humanity for generations. Arguably there may have been a time in the past that these institutions did more good than harm, but that time is long passed. No matter which party is doing the dismantling, the impulse to conserve these institutions is conservative.
The post is spot on. That institutional knowledge is what sustains these large and complex organizations.
As someone with a quarter century in DHS, Treasury, and DoD, I've learned that the first months in any government organization is best spent finding the SMEs and digging up every key policy paper, training doc, and internal URL to build that knowledge base and be able to be effective as soon as possible. Failure to do that in these institutions is hard to live down.
This is an excellent primer on the subject, thank you. Just pulling the lens out a bit further, institutions exist in society, and human society is political. The fact that an institution has survived for decades can be taken as a sign that the society in general has supported and even relied on the structure and benefits said institution provides. That was all actually a question on my part. I think it applies in the most part to democratic society and the institutions thereof that survive for long periods, say in generational terms. What’s happening now, at this moment, is an attempt to cut off generational knowledge as well as institutional knowledge, taking into account the simultaneous attacks on education and culture and imposing a blatantly hypocritical theocratic ideology.
Supporting State institutions isn't liberal. These institutions have been repressing humanity for generations. Arguably there may have been a time in the past that these institutions did more good than harm, but that time is long passed. No matter which party is doing the dismantling, the impulse to conserve these institutions is conservative.
I am an unstable almost 40 year old white male engineering student. Do they really want to fuck me on student loans and aid?