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It strikes me as half "fake it", and half "giving the people what they want". American (and maybe other?) political parties are in the business of creative sto
by pnut 4y ago
It strikes me as half "fake it", and half "giving the people what they want".
American (and maybe other?) political parties are in the business of creative storytelling as a means to the ends of their special interests.
They do sleight of hand with their political platforms, why not also with their disposable hired actors?
The part I find amazing about situations like this, is the default starting position of "it's American politics, things you'd normally go to jail for, are structurally unenforceable here".
- rbanffy 4y ago> American (and maybe other?) political parties are in the business of creative storytelling as a means to the ends of their special interests. This should never be allowed.
- notjulianjaynes 4y agoI don't know quite what you mean by "should," but of course it does happen, and I can't imagine a world where it doesn't. Them's the breaks. See:Kenneth Burke's definition of man: "Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal, inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative), separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making, goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order), and rotten with perfection"[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_man
- rbanffy 4y ago> and I can't imagine a world where it doesn't. We have to start somewhere.