IT used to be that unassuming listeners and the general public cultivated their minds through periods of elections, more so in a general election year, with it's heated debates, which feeds curiosity, and furnish imagination.
Good politics, moreover, are part of the general culture, morals and literature. Today that source of culture has dried up, as well ; it has been delegated, and professional politicians no longer write or debate for the public or the citizen but for one another.
Lately their narrow subjects and bickeries have ceased to be of any real interest to most. Such topics are not expected to attract the general citizenry.
The great questions about being and becoming, the test of truth, and the contradictions of common sense, have not lost their fascination among most of the populace, but politicians and their related media professionals no longer write for or address the intelligent, only their fellow politicians and professional media collaborators.
The elaboration of modern politics and governance go far beyond assertion and counter assertion on such simple matters of merit and quality of this or that politician candidate.
WE should have no wish to reprove any honest use of the intellect. Our aim should only be to contrast implicit claims with actual results, rhetorical slogans with performance, and to ascribe discrepancy not to individual fault but to the temper of the world and the deceitful march of our times.
WE are mistaken when we believe that culture, the humanities and our economical welfare are being served by politicians, their debates, and their election machines.
Thanks for your time and patience in a year of elections.
Good politics, moreover, are part of the general culture, morals and literature. Today that source of culture has dried up, as well ; it has been delegated, and professional politicians no longer write or debate for the public or the citizen but for one another.
Lately their narrow subjects and bickeries have ceased to be of any real interest to most. Such topics are not expected to attract the general citizenry.
The great questions about being and becoming, the test of truth, and the contradictions of common sense, have not lost their fascination among most of the populace, but politicians and their related media professionals no longer write for or address the intelligent, only their fellow politicians and professional media collaborators.
The elaboration of modern politics and governance go far beyond assertion and counter assertion on such simple matters of merit and quality of this or that politician candidate.
WE should have no wish to reprove any honest use of the intellect. Our aim should only be to contrast implicit claims with actual results, rhetorical slogans with performance, and to ascribe discrepancy not to individual fault but to the temper of the world and the deceitful march of our times.
WE are mistaken when we believe that culture, the humanities and our economical welfare are being served by politicians, their debates, and their election machines.
Thanks for your time and patience in a year of elections.
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