Truth To Power
Some thoughts on a Harvard Professor leaving his job to run for parliment in Canada.
What I find interesting in here is the idea that a middle power like Canada is more able to exercise power through developing ideas than through economics or military might.
This is related to thoughts I've had recently about movies, that small movies, in order to compete with Hollywood films and star power, uber special fx, etc, has to come out with crazy ideas. You see this in indy films, tackling more avante garde, subjects, pimps, transsexuals, etc.
These days, I think the smaller the movie, the bigger the idea, almost...
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I absolutely agree, which is why it is so devastating to see the capital C Conservatives in Canada set to win this election, with at least a minority goverment, but possibly a majority. I think that middle powers, in their conduct, and especially in the way they deal with difficult political and social problems can afford to be a bit daring and forward thinking in a way that larger, more spotlighted and powerful nations (like the US, spotlighted in a way that few nations ever have been, except maybe England 200 years ago) can't.
The way the election will go is especially depressing because it's not so much that people don't like what the Liberal party is doing politically, but that they don't like the whole entitlement thing (being funny with public cash, for starters). The irony is that backlash against people who act as though they are entitled (Liberals) will result in bringing to power a party that thinks it's entitled to say the mainstream ought to be right for everyone.
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