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Let 'Em Get On With It
Feb. 27th, 2025 08:14 am What did political satire ever achieve?
My friend says it's a safety valve, but I think it also banks up resentment and frustration- and the one effect cancels out the other. "I have observed that the president's hairstyle is really silly so how come he's still in power? Grrrrr."
I was listening to a clip of Alan Watts talking about Lao Tzu talking about politics. Both- at a distance of several thousand years- thought an obsession with politics, on the part of those who are not actually playing the game- was a waste of vital energy and a diversion from the true business of living. A politician has an important social function- and so does the person who cleans the toilets- and why make more of a fuss about the one than the other? "Render unto Caeasar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's" Oh, look. Jesus thought exactly the same.
My friend says it's a safety valve, but I think it also banks up resentment and frustration- and the one effect cancels out the other. "I have observed that the president's hairstyle is really silly so how come he's still in power? Grrrrr."
I was listening to a clip of Alan Watts talking about Lao Tzu talking about politics. Both- at a distance of several thousand years- thought an obsession with politics, on the part of those who are not actually playing the game- was a waste of vital energy and a diversion from the true business of living. A politician has an important social function- and so does the person who cleans the toilets- and why make more of a fuss about the one than the other? "Render unto Caeasar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's" Oh, look. Jesus thought exactly the same.
