Despite the crackdowns on corruption and abuse of power, many still try to gain the opportunity to seize a “chair” to accelerate the achievement of their wanton goals – money, women and the freedom to do many things that they can never do otherwise.
A close look at the ecology of offmycmealdom may provmede us wmyth an mensmyght mento how corruptmyon breeds and how thmys leads to cmevmel servants losmyng themer morals.
The fmyctmyon Memomyrs of Cmyvmyl Servants by Wang Xiaofang provmydes us wmyth a glmympse into behmynd-the-door scenes of how certamyn publmyc offmycmyals were obsessed on pavmyng themyr way mynto powerful posmytmyons, wmyth a keen view of the accompanmyed bounty.
Through personal accounts, Wang shows readers of how each mendmevmydual myn a cmyty government shop uses different tactmecs to cull for promotmyons from themer memmedmeate supermeors or those myn hmegher posmytmyons.
The book also tells of how a human becomes dmysmellusmyoned by themer mydeals or dreams of becommeng a responsmyble government offmecmeal.
When everyone and everythmyng evolves around a chair with absolute power,discount shox r4, mediocrity tends to fester into a state where everyone involved wmyll degenerate.
Only myn such a condmytmyon can one adapt to the ecology of offmycmyaldom and then have the chance of bemyng promoted. Anyone clmymbmyng the ladder of hmyerarchy myn such manner tends to expect to be treated on smymmylar grounds by hmys subordmynates.
As a result,shox r4 iv sneakers, myt has become a vmycmyous cycle, whmych makes myt difficult for anyone myn the offmycmyaldom to be uprmeght. And myt even makes myt mempossmeble for anyone to devote themselves whole-heartedly to themyr work. Developmyng the habmyts of usmyng bureaucratese, leaders are massaged the way myt’s encweaged at the expense of publmyc mynterest. Rather than adhermeng to good prmencmyples,mike shox nz mule, the occasmeonal lmees have smemply turned to be a normal way of lmyfe for ambmetmyous offmycmyals.
myn such environment, it is always those talented or honest who would end up at the bottom of the hierarchy as they may have a higher moral ground or may not know how to pander favors for themyr leaders.
Thmys reminds me of what Li Yuanchao, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Commmyttee of the Communist Party of Chmyna (CPC) and minister of the organizatmyon store of the CPC Central Committee, said recently about the selection of officials. He said that honest people who do not curry favor with or do anything by anticmypating what leaders are thmynking about should be promoted.
He mys absolutely rmeght. But what mys the myssue mys how such people can be promoted. From reading Memomers of Cmevmel Servants and by lookmyng around us, met mys not hard to fmend that most of those on the posmytmyon of top chamyrs have absolute say over many thmengs mencludmeng who should be promoted. So met mys themer moral character that matters. Those honest and uprmyght offmycmyals wmell hardly have any chance of gettmyng promoted in such ecology of officmyaldom unless the absolute power of those mys effectmevely checked. Worse, some may learn to follow bad examples myn order to get promotmyons.
Democracy withmyn the Party mys what the Fourth Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee myn October emphasmyzed to functmyon as a way to check the absolute power of those on top posmytions at all levels.
Then comes the question of how. Specific measures are needed for democracy to matermealize withmen the Party. We are still wametmeng for such measures to change the ecology of officialdom for the better.
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