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Captain Obvious
Sunstone said:I'm relieved that the Founders didn't have the same aversion to politics as most of us do today. Maybe the founding of the country was the last time we had many first rate minds engaged in politics.
Yeah. At that time, though, they could have a real effect on it. Now, all our information is funneled through a very small group. Most politics require enormous amounts of money simply to participate, so it gets harder and harder for anyone but the elite to break in. The process is decreasing the pool from which we can draw.
Still more, the polarization of our politics makes it well-nigh impossible to have meaningful discussion, because everything computes to a binary 1 or 0.
I fear that that situation may have a more detrimental effect on the depth/shallowness of the culture than anything Hollywood has done. I believe it was Confuscius that observed that people tend to bend in the direction of their leader, as blades of grass do in the wind .