Comments on: How Do You Do It? http://freetheanimal.com/2008/05/how-do-you-do-i.html Expressing Our Primal Genes for Lean Health, Vitality and Attractiveness Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:45:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tom http://freetheanimal.com/2008/05/how-do-you-do-i.html#comment-3643 Tom Sun, 18 May 2008 15:23:57 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/05/how-do-you-do-i.html#comment-3643 <p><i>I don't think the nightmarish disaster that is national politics will in any way be solved until people lose interest in the spectacle,</i></p> <p>I know I'm days late responding to this post, but the above is a very perceptive point.</p> <p>My going observation these days, when talking with most anyone about politics, is that the whole thing seems to have become a sort of real-life national soap opera for many Americans. People seem really engrossed by the theater of it all, the personalities, the ongoing ups and downs and plot twists.</p> <p>I think the Internet has only enhanced/exacerbated this phenomenon. </p> <p>A politics that's based primarily on personalities and stories -- rather than on ideas -- is very dangerous to liberty. It's the reason I most detest Obama out of three (very detestable) mainstream candidates. He and his following are the most glaring symbols of personality politics and thus, to my mind, represent the greatest longterm danger.</p> <p>All we can do is to keep pointing it out, and to hope that -- yes -- the public gets bored with the spectacle. But I don't know. "Guiding Light" has been running for more than 70 years. People are eternally infatuated with this crap.<br /> </p> I don't think the nightmarish disaster that is national politics will in any way be solved until people lose interest in the spectacle,

I know I'm days late responding to this post, but the above is a very perceptive point.

My going observation these days, when talking with most anyone about politics, is that the whole thing seems to have become a sort of real-life national soap opera for many Americans. People seem really engrossed by the theater of it all, the personalities, the ongoing ups and downs and plot twists.

I think the Internet has only enhanced/exacerbated this phenomenon.

A politics that's based primarily on personalities and stories — rather than on ideas — is very dangerous to liberty. It's the reason I most detest Obama out of three (very detestable) mainstream candidates. He and his following are the most glaring symbols of personality politics and thus, to my mind, represent the greatest longterm danger.

All we can do is to keep pointing it out, and to hope that — yes — the public gets bored with the spectacle. But I don't know. "Guiding Light" has been running for more than 70 years. People are eternally infatuated with this crap.

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