poliphilo

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.