>>17723046Shooting The Messenger - The case for anonymity. We're all anons here, right?
Why political solutions almost never take hold. I'm not one to necessarily agree with Thomas Paine's Common Sense, but being a man of his time, and his readers the same, it's not unsurprising they latched onto a more emotive narrative to inspire their movement. But in today's politics, solutions are anathema to "the game" that is politics. As absurd and petty as school and prison yard henpecking. To draw analogy to illustrate this absurdity, I think of a mathematical proof. I'm sure even in today's sciency climate of sciency dogmas, they'd be hard pressed to reject a mathematical proof on the basis that the mathematician was of a questionable character. A wretch, an undesirable, a curmudgeon, a louse. Of course, the more contemporary attacks are to do with sexual impropriety, drug use, maybe cowardice. Nevertheless, I doubt mathematicians would reject the proof and attack the mathematician. They might ask who it was, but they would not ultimately reject the proof. Anyway, this is a working theory on why political solutions never see the light of day, even after gaining some appeal, and so real reforms never occur. The usual suspects are keenly aware of how easily distracted people become about the message, when there is so much joy and intrigue to be enjoyed in deconstructing and abusing the messenger. In the world of the trash, the least trashy trash is king. It's all pretty cliche, isn't it? But it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_601kPxo1lQ 