[Dialogue] Fw: Politics in perspective

[Sunny Walker]

I, too, find I agree (with the response below) -- and still find AS's comments provocative, in that I find myself wondering why 1) so many Americans are consumed with EITHER politics OR with the inane things Conrad mentions and 2) why we seem unable to focus on things of real substance which are positive and uplifting. It's why I've virtually given up on the "news" that is readily available (including NPR -- I have my alarm come on AFTER the morning's news on the NPR classical music station -- vs. the all news station -- in order to be awakened more pleasantly.
Sunny

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Subject: Fw: Politics in perspective


This was Conrad's (a friend in Chicago) response. I agree with his observations too.
Roger

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From: CWeisert at cs.com 
To: ralexan934 at sbcglobal.net 
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: Politics in perspective


In a message dated 8/23/2004 9:30:10 AM Central Daylight Time, ralexan934 at sbcglobal.net writes: 

  This is the reason for the increasing pettiness of our society, the concentration on the small and irrelevant." 


Good point in general, but he missed the point with respect to "politics", which are hardly small and irrelevant,  Perhaps Solzhenitsyn was thinking only of the very limited scope of political debate in the Soviet Union.  

Far from spending "too much time" discussing politics, Americans are appallingly uninformed about major political issues as well as history and geography.  The news media concede that the public is much more interested in Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Scott Petersen, sports, and who won on "Survivor" than in global or domestic matters.