Ripples in the pool from govt decisions
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The U-tapao issue being decided by the current government is but one small part of a myriad of actions, sub-actions and reactions that any government might and most likely would find itself engaged in.
And for every U-tapao issue multiplied by the factor of 100 or 1,000 with reference to subsequent actions, sub-actions and reactions at the various levels of government acting in concert with the primary effort, one must realise that there are a multitude of other such primary efforts with their own actions, sub-actions and reactions also at work at various levels of the government.
This symbiotic, coalescing and amoeba-like collection of processes within processes reveals the overall nature of government at work – pulling and pushing, giving and taking, acting and reacting – with an effervescence and vitality all of its own, unstructured and yet structured, undefined and yet defined, discernable and yet somewhat mysterious.
The entire “je ne sais quoi” of this phenomenon “in toto” is one which oft-times goes completely, or to some degree or another, unlooked at.
Gordon Brown
Bangkok
