I have this album, from an obscure band, which includes a lot of sampled speech from movies etc., most of which I don’t recognize. I have no idea where they got the bit which begins “nobody in the music industry knows anything about the industry.” But it has been on my mind for some time as a useful insight into American politics.
Hardly anyone in politics seems really to know much about politics, beyond shallow ideas and practices adopted from those already in it. I’m not sure much of anyone within American democracy really thinks very deeply about the concept at all.
That seems harsh and probably conceited, and yet. There is so much evidence of even elites who purport to be very concerned with and active in the realm of democracy, all the time, yet demonstrate childishly shallow and nonsensical thinking about it.
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