Dominance Games:
Show biz is show biz. Dumb stays dumb.
In the absence of any real chance to have real people do real things to effect solid policy we get always true stock players and actors for comic relief leading the eternal ratings bonanza of the many loves of the desperate dance prancers of the mawkish melodies of karaoke….. always public spectacle, circus, show, campaign, talk. Politics as the soft breezes that caresses the day.
Were there a real demand for virtuous speech and honest policy a demand that had some strength and force and a magnitude of pressure then the product given might be something different and become then the boring earnest gab fest done by those who are policy wonks and technocrats and goal oriented softies.
The grand free marketplace of political discourse has responded over and over again to the demands put upon it to keep using the bells and whistles and keep sending out the B actors and commercial product/placement players that fill the void of off time programming and sullied lives that is the solid entertainment of political farce.
We demand in our political markets certain drama, certain heroes, certain villains, certain forms of shadow dance. We accept the game as it is and wallow it its debauchery. The efficient market then gives us sun and fun and sweet nothings made up of feckless promise and grand sham. There is no there there. Our political games are show games and they are nice posteriors and sweet projections. Central casting gives us plot, words, story, character….all is the process, the marketing. All good entertainment has / lets the show become the reality. The demand is for mindless entertainment, quick thrills, blood curling tempests. The showmen have long experience and vast knowledge. Show biz is show biz. Dumb stays dumb.
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Dominance Games / Politics: A room with a view
Posted in Commentary, current events, dominance, News, opinion, Politics with tags analysis, Democracy, economics, Government, political satire, power, Public interest, satire on October 22, 2011 by B SchiffDominance Games / Politics:
Poor poor American public. Talking, speaking, listening, dialoguing, trying so hard to find a satisfactory common ground upon which all can rest weary heads.
Poor poor American public. Trying to grow and prosper and defend and educate, trying to tolerate and obfuscate and derail and incubate. A legion of ideals, fabrications, factions, factors, dim lights, messianic hoaxes, hardened criminals and simpering bottom feeders. We come from every which where and we melt together in the great melting pot of rough grub and half baked plaster.
Poor poor American public. Stimulating essentials of sovereign virtue, stimulating essentials of urban legends and tooth fairies and Halloween ghosts and venal goblins. Pictures of racks for punishment and spears for flaying dance magically in the fires of sensuous passions and kneeled at deference that define the worlds we wish for and the worlds we wish our future generations. The magic dragons of puffery and cynicism circle aimlessly as we all see through the prisms of choice the structured worlds of what ought to be.
Uneasy lies the heart that sees a world at odds with the perfection of true right and goodness that the visions of the vision fairies deem to grant us in our hours of yearning. The spectrum, the sliding scale, the integral proportion of wealth and power, force and deference….oh where oh where can we go? Where oh where can we find the solace of vision and the comfort of quest that we wholesomely deserve?
All inclusive are we. A world of aristocracy. A world of plutocracy, of meritocracy, of politically and morally correct? A world of structured class and each in his or her place. A world of simple and constant and ferocious dreams, wants, divides, fantasies, sets, set ups. What do we aim for? Who do we bury? What looks good in the mirror? What is the delineation of place and time? What is our shared vision? What is that vague mist of folly and smoke? Why is there the love of all mankind and simpering fools as their brothers’ keepers?
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http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/10/privatizing-police-work/329/
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http://www.etalkinghead.com/
http://thewashingtonfancy.com/
http://www.thejeffersontree.com/
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