tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post1511216052382786520..comments2024-03-27T07:18:39.229-05:00Comments on In Medias Res: Sobering and ProfoundUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-67157500698697417732010-01-13T09:50:16.025-06:002010-01-13T09:50:16.025-06:00DJ, I suspect that Tim was speaking more generally...DJ, I suspect that Tim was speaking more generally about how citizens--and, specifically, bloggers and other wanna-be pundits--are talking about (and are complicit in being taken in by talk about) politics today, not the actual condition of government. Take Reid, for example. Just about everyone knows the perceived reality his comment about Obama being light-skinned was premised upon. Just about nobody was "actually" offended by him having made such a statement. But we all run about, commenting and responding, acknowledging that it's all a meta-level game of posturing and yet taking it seriously all the same. His post is a plea for authenticity, for seriousness and honest engagement--and as it's coming from a blogger who is usually quite willing to defend our media-saturated, agonistic, oppositional, (post)modern condition, I found it quite refreshing and wise.Russell Arben Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03366800726360134194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-86771340685866314602010-01-13T09:23:58.539-06:002010-01-13T09:23:58.539-06:00I was there until the last paragraph: what makes o...I was there until the last paragraph: what makes our current situation so "stagnant and curdled"? Last time I checked, both houses of the legislature changed hands, the Executive changed, we've seen massive new efforts at expanding government (for good or evil-- choose your fate), and the real possibility of the Senate swinging wildly back the other way.<br /><br />Put simply, I see no more stagnation than any other period in US political history-- quite the opposite. I think things are pretty dynamic and in flux. The speed of perception has changed, thanks to the ocean of information available, but that's a perception problem, IMHO.djredundanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03458665055655463932noreply@blogger.com