Politics does not progress towards some final endgame. It is the ongoing process of working, negotiating, and disagreeing within a political community towards a more perfect union. That is very well said. Marshall McLuhan said "The medium is the message". Today, the election is the message. I'm teaching Julius Caesar now for the nth time. In 44 B.C., the knife was the message. Big difference.
What is the medium/message? As Churchill put it: "There are few words which are used more loosely than the word 'Civilisation.' What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilisation — and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort, and culture."
Politics does not progress towards some final endgame. It is the ongoing process of working, negotiating, and disagreeing within a political community towards a more perfect union. That is very well said. Marshall McLuhan said "The medium is the message". Today, the election is the message. I'm teaching Julius Caesar now for the nth time. In 44 B.C., the knife was the message. Big difference.
What is the medium/message? As Churchill put it: "There are few words which are used more loosely than the word 'Civilisation.' What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilisation — and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort, and culture."