POLITICA AS A VOCATION

Max Weber speech is interesting on how politics was performed in twentieth century which is still  occurs today. There would always be people hungry for power with a pretends that they want to serve their country. As soon as they resume the office, their mission will be to maintain their power by following their predecessors steps in the name of national security. and let the civil servants or lower level officer performs their dirty work. And we would be the one voting for them by believing their lies over and over the time. The citizens will be coarse in doing their will as soon as they resume power. It is either you do it or face the consequences.

The passage that I choose from "Politics as Vocation" from Max Weber is,

"Weber contends that civil servants and political leaders have two different conceptions of honor which means they have different concepts of success and prestige in carrying out their duties:

The honor of the civil servant is vested in his ability to execute conscientiously the order of the superior authorities, exactly as if the order agreed with his own conviction. This holds even if the order appears wrong to him and if, despite the civil servant’s remonstrances, the authority insists on the order. Without this moral discipline and self-denial, in the highest sense, the whole apparatus would fall to pieces. The honor of the political leader, of the leading statesman, however, lies precisely in an exclusive personal responsibility for what he does, a responsibility he cannot and must not reject or transfer. It is in the nature of officials of high moral standing to be poor politicians, and above all, in the political sense of the word, to be irresponsible politicians (p. 95)."
The civil servants are force to follow the books that has been written down for them by the politician like their Bible or book of worship, or be released of their duties or face civil court for not performing their duties well and indirectly the politician will take the responsibility of the action of the civil servant. I like this passage because it relates to what is going on in the world, for example, the IRS take our taxes and the government have to take responsibility for it. Also the police department with their "stop and frisk" rules, though they overdo it sometimes but it still goes back to the government responsibility. The ACS (child protective services) will take someone else kid in the name of the government. There are lot of injustice passing down to the citizens through the civil servants in the name of  the government and we have to abide by it or be forced to do it.