Seeing the American political scene unfurl its rather mediocre candidates, it is so clear how power is managed inadequately -- which is to say for the sake of power, rather than for the sake of humans and their more complex capabilities.
The system -- the one in Australia -- attempted to rule me by terror. A very small mistake -- a palpable human error, whilst attempting to do well with a good attitude -- was seen as the end of the world, as the beginning of doomsday, as an intolerable menace upon the perfectionability of life. Yet allowing huge sections of America to sink underwater, bombing this country because you mistake it for that one, and generally running the economy into the ground is ... perfectly okay.
The standards I have always been held to as a mere worker are a zillion times higher than the standard to which one would hold the American president or almost anyone in office.
Power has its own justification by which it perpetuates the most abject incompetence as normal and acceptable. Lack of power can never justify itself, no matter what its competencies or skills happen to be.
Is this the lesson we will take from the 21st Century?
2 comments:
The lesson for worker bees maybe. But in the U.S. We actually have to find a president smart enough to comprehend what you just wrote.
Its times like this that I feel justified in considering my career as a bitter intellectual elitist. Then I remember, that unlike the moron in office, I havent even a degree yet. And so I go back to bed, incapable of following that horrid through all the way through.
A lot of things can get you through the door. Apparently a working brain isnt one of them.
We all judge our value these days by the amount of break that is imposed upon his between ongoing consuming. Those who must take the longest break between consumption at society's teets and the empty time filled by doing meaningless work, are the ones considered to have the least social status. Those whose mouths are like vacuum cleaners or like rubbish trucks, are considered kings and queens.
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