As the arguments about the budget limit, increased revenues, and reduced spending continue, the political-media talking heads use, in a patronizing to condescending manner, the voices of the layman populist. By participating in THEIR debate you are dis-empowering yourself, and the options you and others, with whom you have a tangible or virtual-online bond, to organize your own immediate action. This debate is a tool of fait accompli leverage which one side will have to capitulate in biting compromise or humiliating submission. That is the political-media debate.
For you, it is as it always is. You either can or you can't. You make do with what your native talents and ability can accomplish and move on to the next possibilities. Depending on the politicians or some media persuasion is the equivalent of playing the lottery with hopes of being the big winner. The latter-day Arnold Rothsteins, who have placed their money to get the outcome they want, have made your hopes and rhetoric a vain, fool's errand of delusion.
What you can accomplish is in the micro-culture of your incidental interactions that provide the opportunity for 'extended-family', 'tribe', or 'clan' emotional bonds that would have a natural, cohesive, cooperative response, rather than you putting your hopes on those who see you only as a demographic statistic.
It would be better to 'think globally and act micro-incidentally, then wastefully feed your energy to the elitists' egoes by participating in THEIR discussion where you'd be, at best, a prop or pawn for their cynical, posturing agendas.
Harpo
NPN, VA
July 2011
