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joining me from toronto is john ralston saul the president emeritus of pan international and the author of several books that are profoundly shaped my own thinking including voltaire's bastards and the collapse of globalism john let's begin by discussing term you use in your books to describe them technocratic elite you call them systems managers and i've been struck as the pandemic has unfolded in the united states how these system manners do just what you have predicted they do which is serve the system even when that's counterproductive not only to the common good even when it's not of course rational but even when it when it's self destructive. merely intrastate thing is that you're if you're trying a government in the essence of a civil service is on the one hand they're professionals and on the other hand they have to they have to search through a president yes but that has to be limited by their in dependence from politics and their own ethical standards so that if you actually look at the history of civil services they're all about this balance between professionalism service an

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