“Those who hate Fox News are as persuaded by its representation of the country as are its truest devotees.”--- Marilynne Robinson
America is getting increasingly coarsened by the inflating enmity between peoples of the same name who divide themselves against each other and identifying themselves with the presidential candidates who they think they know everything about but actually know nothing about.
It would be amusingly interesting if we find former candidates' debates. Even if we do not try to comprehend the contents of their speeches but just observe the manners they delivered their opinions, we would see the giant difference between coarseness and grace. Grace may not be the word for it would, in some people's mind, be representative of affected obsolescent Victorianism. Then let's use another word: decency. Definitely, there is generally less decency nowadays not only in the candidates but also in their champions and advocates. In a coarsened world, people with grace will perish and creatures with decency will be elbowed to the edge and eventually culturally annihilated or gelded.
Many feminists complain and protest vehemently that they are objectified and materialized. It is not just their woeful lot; it is the sorrowful fate of an inexorably era that is getting increasingly objectified and materialized. People care less about lofty things. People show nothing but contempt to the so-called universal brotherhood used to be sung of by many a lofty intellectual figure and work.American people not only divide themselves against each other; they also tend to construct divides between their borders and all other borders, may even include that of its most brotherly nation Canada, which is manifested by the stance of the highly touted and self-touted candidate Donald Trump.Trump says he may also keep a distance from America's very close ally EU, which it self is divided.
Yes, self pride, self reliance, self confidence and self love has been the heritage in America for a long time, as long as since Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Emerson and Walt Whitman. However, all those intellectual giants touted those self merits still with some restraint, which might be called modesty or humbleness, and which in nature is a kind of decency.
Alas, such decency is leaving us rapidly. Actually, it won't matter much if there is still sufficient common sense lingering in some of the nation's minds. But the miserable fact is that when the Fox news or Ox news are surveying some minds, they are too agitated to base their opinions on logical grounds. They are so proud, self-stubborn, self-confident and bold that they just crisply they I do not like XX, so I do not want her/him to be the president!
Those minds are perfect testimonial to our woeful situation of being objectified and materialized. Many of us, if not most, are no more than the mouthpiece of the sophisticated machine of modernity dominated by invisible capitalist barons and political princes. Connected by wired cables or wireless ones, we are consuming mass-manufactured data and commodities, they former being a sort of the latter, yet we are confident that the parts over our necks having been functioning superbly well all the time.
In short, I see a little more decency in Hillary Clinton than in Donald Trump; yet even so, I do not hold the delusional belief that one will exceed the other in being the president, for my belief is: Trump will by no means become a better Hillary is he ascends the presidential chair. I did not see through politics. What I have seen through is that self-division and self-deception are steps to self-enslavement.
America is getting increasingly coarsened by the inflating enmity between peoples of the same name who divide themselves against each other and identifying themselves with the presidential candidates who they think they know everything about but actually know nothing about.
It would be amusingly interesting if we find former candidates' debates. Even if we do not try to comprehend the contents of their speeches but just observe the manners they delivered their opinions, we would see the giant difference between coarseness and grace. Grace may not be the word for it would, in some people's mind, be representative of affected obsolescent Victorianism. Then let's use another word: decency. Definitely, there is generally less decency nowadays not only in the candidates but also in their champions and advocates. In a coarsened world, people with grace will perish and creatures with decency will be elbowed to the edge and eventually culturally annihilated or gelded.
Many feminists complain and protest vehemently that they are objectified and materialized. It is not just their woeful lot; it is the sorrowful fate of an inexorably era that is getting increasingly objectified and materialized. People care less about lofty things. People show nothing but contempt to the so-called universal brotherhood used to be sung of by many a lofty intellectual figure and work.American people not only divide themselves against each other; they also tend to construct divides between their borders and all other borders, may even include that of its most brotherly nation Canada, which is manifested by the stance of the highly touted and self-touted candidate Donald Trump.Trump says he may also keep a distance from America's very close ally EU, which it self is divided.
Yes, self pride, self reliance, self confidence and self love has been the heritage in America for a long time, as long as since Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Emerson and Walt Whitman. However, all those intellectual giants touted those self merits still with some restraint, which might be called modesty or humbleness, and which in nature is a kind of decency.
Alas, such decency is leaving us rapidly. Actually, it won't matter much if there is still sufficient common sense lingering in some of the nation's minds. But the miserable fact is that when the Fox news or Ox news are surveying some minds, they are too agitated to base their opinions on logical grounds. They are so proud, self-stubborn, self-confident and bold that they just crisply they I do not like XX, so I do not want her/him to be the president!
Those minds are perfect testimonial to our woeful situation of being objectified and materialized. Many of us, if not most, are no more than the mouthpiece of the sophisticated machine of modernity dominated by invisible capitalist barons and political princes. Connected by wired cables or wireless ones, we are consuming mass-manufactured data and commodities, they former being a sort of the latter, yet we are confident that the parts over our necks having been functioning superbly well all the time.
In short, I see a little more decency in Hillary Clinton than in Donald Trump; yet even so, I do not hold the delusional belief that one will exceed the other in being the president, for my belief is: Trump will by no means become a better Hillary is he ascends the presidential chair. I did not see through politics. What I have seen through is that self-division and self-deception are steps to self-enslavement.
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