I am not 'cynical about politics' or trying to dodge my civic duty. I shall 'exercise my vote'. But the spectacle of the issues that matter being daily evaded by all sides does not help the digestion.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Literature and the Election
I am not 'cynical about politics' or trying to dodge my civic duty. I shall 'exercise my vote'. But the spectacle of the issues that matter being daily evaded by all sides does not help the digestion.
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I'm also approaching this election with a very heavy heart. As a committed socialist all my life I have no enthusiasm for the current line-up and feel totally disillusioned with what has been achieved. Yet there is no one else offering anything that would give me any hope at all.
Huxley in After Many A Summer put the farce of modern 'democracy' quite well, I thought:
"'Privilege is dead; long live privilege.' Government must always be by Tyrants or Oligarchs. My opinion of the Peerage and the landed gentry is exceedingly low; but their own opinion of themselves must be even lower than mine. They believe that the Ballot will rob them of their Power and Privileges, whereas I am sure that, by the exercise of even such little Prudence and Cunning as parsimonious Nature has endowed them with, they can at ease maintain themselves in their present pre-eminence. This being so, let the Rabble amuse itself by voting. An Election is no more than a gratuitous Punch and Judy show, offered by the Rulers in order to distract the attention of the Ruled."
The archaic style as the extract the writings of a late 18th century earl or some such.
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