The Wicked Servant

"A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link"

A system is made up of many small parts. The individual parts work on different tasks and have individual agendas that in theory relate to the system's larger goal. The sum of all these parts add up to the system, which is only as beneficial, and ethical as it's parts. Systems, particularly those that claim to be beneficent, are in reality self-serving, and unethical due to selfish members of the system, and the initial reason that the system was set up. The wicked tenant was the weak link in the client king's system. Initially it was a system of terror and manipulation, but the client king was trying to change it into a morally correct one. Since King is law (Rex Lex) all members of the system should have followed his example. Yet the servant did not, attempting to gain power when the Client King showed mercy, and in turn showed weakness. The servant was thinking selfishly when the system's success relied on him acting selflessly. In Hurricane Katrina the beneficent system that was set prior to the tragedy did not end up serving the people. This is because when the system was set up the primary intention behind it was not to help people in times of crisis but rather to use it as a campaign and popularity device. State of emergency declarations was not addressed in this plan to save face. When a concrete crisis occurred, the plan did not hold because the initial intention and priority of the system was not to help people in need.

As a table, generate one original, insightful idea about systems that helps us understand how and why they often cause so much harm.

A system is not a concrete item but rather a theoretical idea of how many people function together. The intention behind systems is to include and benefit all that are apart of it, but in reality systems only benefit an elite few. People are so willing to join systems because an illusion of complete inclusiveness is set up by the system for the purpose of marketing. For example Saint Mary's has a pamphlet of marketing illusions portraying the school as benefiting all. In reality the school excludes students. Because of this illusion, members of a system begin relying on it to fulfill it's promises. Systems harm it's members when it does not meet these expectation.