I am sick to puking ...
... of politics, and news.
As a news junky and history/poli-sci kinda guy, it dawned on me a day or two ago that I would rather have boiling oil poured over my testicles than listen to any more political crap, and most news.
Yesterday I switched off my satellite radio and, for 3 solid hours, drove without ANY music or entertainment. I just watched the world slide by, listened to the road, and allowed my thoughts to simmer along, bubbling up memories or plans now and then at random.
I am inclined, lately, to buy a piece of land about 45 minutes from a reasonably groovy city and just go become a para-hermit. Read, watch DVD's and satellite TV, surf, write, Have friends over. Control my exposure to what seems to be an increasingly shallow and tepid public, and control access to my life by spammers, tele-marketers, Jehovah's Witnesses, census-takers and pollsters.
My reaction is similar to "waking up" one day and realizing that "professional wrestling" was going into plot re-runs. I watched the WWF (as it was then called) for a little over a year, enjoying it as entertainment, but then I saw the recurring patterns and became bored quickly.
At last I have followed politics long enough to realize that the status quo is indelible, and that there are few, if any, original arguments on either side, and most of the arguments are patently foolish at best. America is so heavily polarized now that the "swing voters" and "independents" are marginalized, making the only relatively "fresh" and original positions part of an ineffectual fringe. And the polar opposites are inclined to ignorance, stupidity, and even malicious, intentional prevarication.
As a news junky and history/poli-sci kinda guy, it dawned on me a day or two ago that I would rather have boiling oil poured over my testicles than listen to any more political crap, and most news.
Yesterday I switched off my satellite radio and, for 3 solid hours, drove without ANY music or entertainment. I just watched the world slide by, listened to the road, and allowed my thoughts to simmer along, bubbling up memories or plans now and then at random.
I am inclined, lately, to buy a piece of land about 45 minutes from a reasonably groovy city and just go become a para-hermit. Read, watch DVD's and satellite TV, surf, write, Have friends over. Control my exposure to what seems to be an increasingly shallow and tepid public, and control access to my life by spammers, tele-marketers, Jehovah's Witnesses, census-takers and pollsters.
My reaction is similar to "waking up" one day and realizing that "professional wrestling" was going into plot re-runs. I watched the WWF (as it was then called) for a little over a year, enjoying it as entertainment, but then I saw the recurring patterns and became bored quickly.
At last I have followed politics long enough to realize that the status quo is indelible, and that there are few, if any, original arguments on either side, and most of the arguments are patently foolish at best. America is so heavily polarized now that the "swing voters" and "independents" are marginalized, making the only relatively "fresh" and original positions part of an ineffectual fringe. And the polar opposites are inclined to ignorance, stupidity, and even malicious, intentional prevarication.
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