Thanks for reading and the encouragement. Christophers is new to me.
Something I find obvious is that politics has become like pro entertainment sports: designed to keep us distracted, cheering for one team, booing the other, and treating supporters of the other team with disdain. It's a medium size industry in its own right (see Taibbi in Hate Inc.) but it also is the screen behind which the real power and business is conducted. It is also one of the main tools to keep us from populist and protest candidates. But as Trump, Corbyn, Sanders, and Brexit all show, it's no longer enough, hence the authoritarian narrative control which is now so bad I started talking about liberal fascists.
It often seems to me that Aurelien sees the quality degradation in politics and administration as a root cause. I do not.
This is excellent, thanks. Brett Christophers has much to say about the looting of public goods by "the enemies that lie behind"
https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/authors/christophers-brett
Thanks for reading and the encouragement. Christophers is new to me.
Something I find obvious is that politics has become like pro entertainment sports: designed to keep us distracted, cheering for one team, booing the other, and treating supporters of the other team with disdain. It's a medium size industry in its own right (see Taibbi in Hate Inc.) but it also is the screen behind which the real power and business is conducted. It is also one of the main tools to keep us from populist and protest candidates. But as Trump, Corbyn, Sanders, and Brexit all show, it's no longer enough, hence the authoritarian narrative control which is now so bad I started talking about liberal fascists.
It often seems to me that Aurelien sees the quality degradation in politics and administration as a root cause. I do not.