Buch Day 133
[still week 17 of back @ work]

dear C.C.,
my humble position in the greater mechanism that is my current job is due to the greater needs of systemic change in Romania's educational paradigm, which encompasses a large number of children (though not only) and a greater inclusion of women (by supporting the equality of opportunities). now, I'm not saying the world's perfect and that I alone will be the most relevant contributor to changing things for the better. Just saying that, for [a current] lack of a better option, this is what I can and am doing. Would you happen to have a better proposition?

.... then again, as my current tube companion - Mr. Bertrand Russell - wrote at a point in his life:

The increase of organization has brought into existence new positions of power. Every body has to have executive officials, in whom, at any moment, its power is concentrated. It is true that officials are usually subject to control, but the control may be slow and distant. From the young lady who sells stamps in a post office all the way up to the Prime Minister, every official is invested, for the time being, with some part of the power of the State. You can complain of the young lady if her manners are bad, and you can vote against the Prime Minister at the next election if you disapprove of his policy. But both the young lady and the Prime Minister can have a very considerable run for their money before (if ever) your discontent has any effect. This increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else. [...] This tyranny of officials is one of the worst results of increasing organization, and one against which it is of the utmost importance to find safeguards if a scientific society is not to be intolerable to all but an insolent aristocracy of Jacks-in-office. [taken from here]

... and this is [part of] the downside of being a public servant...