<< From the point of view of someone like Hannah Arendt, "meetings" that is, political action have particular value in that the individual breaks out of her subjectivity and the limits of that subjectivity and hears the views of perspectives of others. . . . I think a serious problem with "liberal democracy" is it extreme disregard for this type of public life.
Arendt had a ridiculous nostalgia for an imaginary ancient Greece. She also never went to as many meeting her whole life as I go to every year. Sure, politics can be fun. But you don't want to make it mandatory or subject the rest of us to the rule of the big mouths. --jks
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