01-31-2022, 10:53 AM
(01-31-2022, 10:35 AM)David Horn Wrote:(01-30-2022, 11:16 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: When politics was about doing for people instead of to people it was dull.
Then again there is the old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times".
Apparently, no one cares whether we succeed as long as it's entertaining. Have we been entertained?
With all the entertainment available to us, from pro wrestling to grand opera, it would seem that we don't need it in politics. Blitz-watching The Honeymooners, Star Trek, or Downton Abbey has to be more entertaining! If politics are going well our lives can have foci other than survival -- like choosing which set of Bruckner symphonies to purchase or which pay-cable series to watch.
I do not go to the doctor's office to be entertained.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.