not of this world

listening to drudge tonight crystallized for me why politics has grown so exceptionally distasteful this cycle (which shouldn’t even be beginning for at least (at least!) another 6 months).

it has devolved faster and farther into the most putrid reality tv politics - hold the real reality, principle shadows on the side - than is worth giving any time to (hence its appeal in our times), though i still find myself drawn to peek at it like the most gruesome and tragic of wrecks that it is. he/she with the most consultant savy image posturing and fully, shamelessly financed, coldly calculated triangulation, is the only horse in the race that has any chance of riding the multi, multi media wave. i know this has been developing for some time now, but its intensity and accelerated faux hyped hype somehow still saddens me (guess i still have some dregs of naive idealism left to be slain). sadly there doesn’t appear to be any room left for statesmanship (nor would a true statesman, if we had him, know where to begin a viable campaign in such an atmosphere) in the age of utube and ever accelerated, ever debased and dumbed down, attention deficited reality tv entertainment appetites.

more citizens will tune into american idol tuesday night than the state of the union address given in a time of war.

and it would seem that the politicians posturing on our horizon are prepared to do or sell out whatever it takes to competatively vie for the attentions of just such a demographic. they’ve got that going for them, which is… bleh.