Politics are about such great things that they somehow end up being about nothing. Politics, increasingly, are about winning elections at any cost, via the violent manipulation of human opinion.
. . . The natural systems and elemental forces that give us our bodies and lives are rife with simple integrity and sincerity of purpose. The maneuverings of political factions blind us to this integrity, or make us think we can fool it. But you can’t use a glib skit and laugh track to joke a polar ice cap into not melting. You can’t hire a PR firm to fast-talk radioactivity out of nuclear waste. Watch a mated pair of Bullock’s Orioles* build their incredible hanging nest not in the thirty seconds it takes to brainwash a voter, but in the days and days needed to build it properly. . . . There is no disingenuous bullshitting in the life-giving operations of nature, nothing snide, nothing needlessly clever. ~David James Duncan, oriononline.org
O, for some integrity in politics. I’d vote for it. Namaste.
*photo of Baltimore Oriole (in subspecies with Bullock's Oriole) and top view of hanging nest, with offsprings inside
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