Monday Ménage: Politics, Imagery, and Living Without Food

Frank. McLuhan. Roberts.

 

Vice-President Richard Nixon, speaking to members of California’s Commonwealth Club, was asked if he’d like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment – the sort that has since taken place – and he replied, ‘I think it would be a great tragedy … if we had our two major political parties divide on what we would call a conservative-liberal line.’ He continued, ‘I think one of the attributes of our political system has been that we have avoided generally violent swings in Administrations from one extreme to the other. And the reason we have avoided that is that in both parties there has been room for a broad spectrum of opinion.’ Therefore, ‘when your Administrations come to power, they will represent the whole people rather than just one segment of the people’. Jeffrey Frank.

 

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Marshall McLuhan.

 

In this modern day and age America`s newest slogan is: Mom, apple pie and high-speed Internet. They say you can live two weeks without food, a day or so without water but take someone`s smart phone away, and that person won`t last five minutes. Will Roberts.