I had to write about it when I saw Slyck.com write about some of the aftercurrents of the whole leaking. Alot of people want The Pirate Bay to take a massive fall for this whole charade, while they reply in their usual manner, and links their frontpage picture straight to the torrents everyone is up in arms about. I still find the whole thing hilarious *grins*
I’m not really into politics, or whatever they’re doing there, since I am of the opinion that they’re all a bunch of assholes/liars/opportunists that couldn’t do an honest days work even if they were forced to ( not that I’m particlarly better, but I’m not trying to run a country either ). They pour out a bunch of uninteresting shit that mellows or sways the masses, but never really answers anything useful, or completely fails to be unambiguous ( ref: 8-ball of Doom ) in their replies. For these reasons I have to agree with Torbjørn Røe Isaksen from Young Right ( Unge Høyre, Norwegian political branch *shrugs* ) that TV debates are out, but probably not for the entirely same reasons as him. He claims that kids these days aren’t interested in TV-debates, which I have to agree with, I am certainly not interested in them, and I am definately not interested in reading rehearsed replies meant to dull our minds to ( preferably ) mush. Why do I put it like that? I have seen three of those that were interesting, and that’s because it all turned into a heated debate between the people who seemed to geniunely hate each others points of view, not because the questions and replies were deep or interesting.
Right, so he claims kids aren’t interested in TV-debates because kids want to take part in the discussions. I agree, because that would force the politicians to answer in a real manner, hopefully, or watch their replies be picked apart like the piss it is. Or so I hope. Smart people that people like reading about tend to get a lot of views in forums and such on the internet, and will be able to affect the outcomes in ways that the current format on TV will never be able to. Sure there are the odd places on the net where they exist, but noone notices them, atleast not yet.
What Torbjørn Røe Isaksen should probably keep in mind though is that the TV-networks doesn’t give a shit about any of these things as long as they make money on this format, no matter how stupid it may look and seem. and until they’re made illegal it won’t matter one dippetyshit.
July 20, 2007
I think what turns me off debates like those is the sour taste it leaves in my mouth of well rehearsed repetition. It does not interest me that politician A has a staff that has figured out every question and counter argument politician B could come up with and has written “perfectly ok sounding” answers that politician A can blurb out in the same stride as he makes the promises that his staff has figured out that the voters want to hear him utter no matter if they believe him or not.
And it just makes me nauseous to see verbal fighting break out where the catalyst is that heat that comes with absolute loathing. In the same way I do not enjoy most political interviews when it seems the interviewer is not there to find out what the person is actually saying, but to follow the agenda that his or her boss already approved and that is supposed to lead to the ending of the show they had decided on in the meeting the previous week. It just makes me itch all over.
What I would love is forum debates. There are some really interesting and in depth disecting going on out there by those “uninterested youths”. Just the kind of carefully posed questions and actual explanations I would like to have as a voter. Problem is, if that medium was to be used by main stream politics… it would eventually get tainted by commercialism and political prostitution and the energy one has put into finding those (quite far from but still fairly) clean sources of discussion will have to be used again, to find some other source.
I had a huge reply I wanted to write, but I couldn’t think of anything to write that didn’t do anything but agree in really, really intricate ways. So let’s keep it simple:
My love… *hugs kisses high-five* ;D
I’ll point out that the “commercialism and political prostitution” bit is probably the “most true” point you have there. It’s far too easy to sell out in some way, no matter where you hide.
July 20, 2007
I know where I’d like to hide.
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