Hi Dragan,

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>So the American virus ("it's all in the procedures, if you have everyone follow the procedures, they don't have to think, so you can hire cheap illiterate guys, just as long as they can follow the procedures") has spread more than I thought. Or maybe it's not just American, it's only more obvious here. In a case of disaster, you can behave as foolishly as you want, as long as you can prove you've followed the procedures, your back is safe. Or you can save the day, and still be punished for not following the procedure.

This makes it sound as though this originated in America or in American minds. Far from the truth. As we all know, the U.S. is one of the youngest countries in the world (as the rest of the world constantly reminds us) and this has occurred in many governments throughout history. I can tell you from personal experience that while I did see this working for the government, it was very seldom. Much has changed in government jobs but it is a slow process. It takes the retirement of those in charge and new individuals to take over for change to even START. That happens in business also around the world.

I think that it is more obvious here when it happens because by nature most Americans are free thinkers and individualists and would never survive in some of the countries in the world where the same freedoms do not exist - even culturally because we have lived with certain rights and freedoms since we were born.