Για την alexandra και όχι μόνο...

 Alexandra said...

Πολιτικοί και πολιτική πάντα με αφήνουν αδιάφορη...

Την ίδια αδιαφορία επιδεικνύουν και άλλοι/ες. Μετά από σκέψη.

Διαβάστε αυτό.

......by now most of the population is consumed by what the press calls "anti-politics," meaning hatred of government, disdain for political parties and the whole democratic process. That, too, is a great victory for the aristocrats in Jefferson's sense, that is, those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all power from them into the hands of the higher classes. By now that means into the hands of transnational corporations and the states and quasi-governmental institutions that serve their interests.

Another victory is the fact that the disillusionment, which is rampant, is anti-politics. A New York Times headline on this reads, "Anger and Cynicism Well Up In Voters As Hope Gives Way. Mood Turns Ugly as More People Become Disillusioned With Politics." Last Sunday's magazine section was devoted to anti-politics. Notice: not devoted to opposition to power and authority, to the easily identifiable forces that have their hands on the lever of decision-making and that cast their shadow on society as politics, as Dewey put it. They have to be invisible to the commissar class. The Times has a story today again about this topic where they quote some uneducated person who doesn't get the point. He says, "Yeah, Congress is rotten, but that's because Congress is big business, so of course it's rotten." That's the story you're not supposed to see. You're supposed to be anti-politics. The reason is that whatever you think about government, it's the one part of the system of institutions that you can participate in and modify and do something about. By law and principle you can't do anything about investment firms or transnational corporations. Therefore nobody better see that. You've got to be anti-politics. That's another victory.

Ολόκληρο το καταπληκτικό κείμενο του Noam Chomsky  εδώ.