Carpet Stain Syndrome—a collection of National government behaviors and responses expressed through agencies, bureaus, military structures and various government actors [...] wherein governmental authority is used to secure the jurisdictional territory {public health, in snicker's case} and responsibilities assigned to the monitor and reinforce the monitor’s purpose: jurisdiction over his governmental carpet stain. The carpet stain is the governmental assignment, large or small that the governmental actor must act upon, protect, promote and when necessary, clean up.
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If the carpet stain is kept at a reasonable size {if people keep getting sick, in snicker's case}, the monitor gets accolades and heaps of rewards. When the stain grows too large, then the monitor has an excuse to request more funding and resources for the following year’s budget. Either way, the position of Carpet Stain Monitor is a win/win proposition. The stain never disappears (the governmental need is never resolved.) If it did fade away, the monitor would have no need to exist either. That never happens.
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I know Carpet Stain Monitors. By way of partial-full disclosure I must reveal that I spent many years as a rabid Carpet Stain Monitor in the secret National Security structure of the Western nations. I took my own carpet stains very seriously. I was willing to take the life of another or give up my own life in the single-minded pursuit of protecting and improving my carpet stain. There are innumerable noble men and women of fidelity and integrity who are just as serious about their duty and rightfully so. They internalize their oaths and can be the most noble people on Earth. Unfortunately, most never have an inkling of the ultimate controlling [governmental] agendas.
On any chessboard, the most sincere and earnest pieces are often the pawns (and of course also the most easily sacrificed). Carpet Stain Monitors tend to be managers, builders and advocates of government fiefdoms but it’s the pawns that carry out the day-to-day operations of all the national governments. They make up about 99 percent of all national governments. They know essentially what the assignment is and what is involved but they focus on the daily chores of the institutions. They are the soldiers in the field, the government workers in the trenches, bureaucrats doing the best they can and they are law-enforcement doing the dangerous work in the field. They do their work for the sake of their brethren. They accomplish their mission to give support and aid to their brothers and sisters. They confront the dangers they face to protect and serve the ideals of nations they believe in. They tend to be the most professional and dedicated pieces on the chessboard.
Most will sail through their time in government service and never be touched by the repercussions of this corrosive system [...]
