I know, I know. We’re not supposed to talk about politics but I’ll be brief.
There’s a famous politician in the UK called Rupert Lowe and he’s just launched a national political party exclusively promoting the needs of the city he represents. Not the country, not the country, not even the region, the city. We are investing our hopes in micro-politics it seems.
Now, obviously it’s a total farce. It will, of course, garner him much publicity. He’s doing the podcast circle jerk with all the important/relevant people.
We want solutions but we place our hopes and fears in the hands of those who could not care less about us and are unable to help us anyway.
Now, to be fair, I go even more local! The individual. That means you, a separate being, me, my own man (working on it). We want to know stuff. We want answers, man is a curious species but it’s hard to get to the truth.
We like to think we’re rational but just look at politics, sport, celebrity culture, religion – it’s all emotional. We want an afterlife, we want simple explanations for why things are the way they are, we want certainty in the basics as we go about our lives doing what’s necessary.
I believe the pursuit is what makes life meaningful and purposeful.