----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
> Which illustrates the point that what matters is not moral/intellectual
> qualities of politicians, but the quality of political institutions. US
> politics sucks not because people of questionable moral/intellectual
> fibre run it, but the other way around - the system is corrupt and
> corrupts those who are a part of it, regardless of their personal
> characteristscs. Bush or Reagan are perfect fits - not only because
> their philistinism fits the nature of the system, but mainly because
> their intellectual ineptitude allows the assorted monied interest and
> grey eminences to run the show with minimal interruption from those
> hired to act as leaders.
>
> Wojtek
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Yes, the institutions just floated out of platonic hyperspace and became an iron cage-deus ex machina all without any effort; they structure...without feedback from those whom they structure.
Sheesh,
Ian