Politics as Disease

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"The order of politics, as we have known it in the world, is an order imposed on society, neither desired by most people, nor directed to their needs. It is therefore chaotic and destructive. Politics grates       on our sensibilities. It violates the elementary requirement of aesthetics––– it is devoid of beauty. It is coercive, as if sound were forced into our ears at a decibel level such as to make us scream, and those responsible called this music. The 'order' of modern life is a cacophony which has made us almost deaf to the gentler sounds of the universe."
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From The Art of Revolution
Howard Zinn