The more I listen to certain government ministers and their defenders, the more I realise that a lot of people have never stopped to wonder about their purpose. Naturally, these government ministers are relying on this lack of curiosity to get away with the bare foolishness they say and do. So long as it never crosses our mind to consider why we employ a group of representatives or how they should be representing us, they can do as they please. Which, of course, is precisely what many of them are doing.