A Startup University to Train Public Servants: the US Public Service Academy

[dilbertgeg]

How does this relate to Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of The Pentagon's New Map?

That's a scheme for extending the LEVIATHAN U.S. military attack force with a permanent global multinational "peacekeeping" force, w collaboration amongst the G-20 nations.

The Leviathan will invade and destroy as needed, with quickness, Shock and Awe. Next, millions of civilian peacekeepers will drop in to assist/enforce the march of CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION, which will solve every other problem via "connectivity".

[scharwenka1850]

Interesting topic. Thanks.

[sressler89]

Good video Chris. I think you have a very well-rounded argument. Continue to think big and I look forward to helping out any way I can.

[PublicServiceAcademy]

Yes, Academy students would have a different experience than most college graduates, but they likely will be far LESS isolated than other college students. Requirements for service in the community, study abroad, service internships, etc. will insure that Academy students are actively engaged in the real world. They may not get to enjoy the all-night keg parties and other staples of college life, but they will have much more experience with the needs, experiences, and views of regular people.

[PublicServiceAcademy]

If the Public Service Academy were to graduate 50,000 students a year and were the only option for future public servants, then RITMaloney's point might be legitimate. The Academy, however, will only be one of many options that a prospective public servant might pursue.

Academy graduates may share similar values -- respect for the Constitution, dedication to the country, etc. -- but hardly similar views. Like other college grads, they will run the gamut politically.

[RITMaloney]

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Furthermore graduates of this Academy are likely to have very similar views. Thus the particular dogma that develops at this Academy will have a disproportionate influence on the administration of government.

Our leading Public Servants should be drawn from the vast general college educated population so they may best understand the needs, experiences, and views of the general population.

A democracy should not divide its citizenry into casts as if people were a race of ants.

[RITMaloney]

I once dreamed of this idea myself.

However, this is a bad idea for a democracy.

Such an Academy will take young minds and train them in a environment that SEPARATES them from the REST of the US population. The Public Servants who come out of this Academy will have much different experiences in their formative years than the rest of citizenry. This Academy will produce bureaucrats who are even more detached from the experiences of the general population than those we currently have.

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[hahawhat98]

I agree...this is a horrible idea but somehow I think they will go ahead with this anyway regardless of the US Population's disagreement with it...