Newfound wealth and a strong, distant government allowed cynicism, apathy and disinterest to take hold.
After all, for those who cannot access such distant government agencies, it is difficult to believe how transparency and open government is going to improve their lives.
He said he had high medicine and transportation costs to go to a distant government hospital for continued chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
People around the world have no idea that all of their telephonic and internet communications are being collected, stored and analyzed by a distant government.
They were told they were going to fight evil on its home ground, but instead many were dragged into historic turf wars, battling for a distant government riddled with corruption, often feeding the problems they thought they were tackling.
Pakistan could rely on the usual laws and courts and a Parliament; the tribal areas had only impromptu councils and often ruthless political agents appointed by a distant government.
Severe Christmas flooding left drenched northern communities feeling that a distant government was slower to act than it might have been if the waters had been rising in Barnes.
This was a movement - instinctive, emotional and irrational - of rural working people, small businessmen and even angry housewives, alienated by what they saw as an urban, cosmopolitan, bourgeois, distant government.
Equally, the Scots can no longer blame a distant government in London for all their problems.If it works then devolution, far from being the harbinger of the break-up of Britain, should bring fresh vitality to national life outside London.
That economic "strategy" was based on the absurd idea that a few distant government politicians and officials knew what we should be investing in better than the millions of specialists, entrepreneurs and financiers whose careers and livelihoods depended on betting correctly on the future.
