Whitewater is a small town, with a population only over fourteen thousand. Not far around us, though, are larger cities, and corporations, with intricate hierarchies.
We have joined the modern and modernizing trend toward greater specialization, in committees, titles, and departments.
Our culture has not kept pace with our specialization – BAU (business as usual) in Whitewater tends toward the informal and traditional.
No one opposes BAU more than I do.
We are so small that we cannot say we have a substantial bureaucracy, but we should acknowledge that the tiny one we have functions oddly.
It’s torn between being a tool of BAU and developing an independent, unbiased integrity.
There is far to go, and mere structure without principled reform of our government culture will not serve us.