Excuse please, but I’m having difficulty with your baseline assumption that we are entering a new era. Nor do I see the Utopian changes of that last paragraph spontaneously occurring. Power is never relinquished voluntarily.
Gimme that Electronic Religion On the altar of TV…
In the words of old Pat Robertson, “For salvation, vote for me!”
- Mark Russell
As much of a footnote as Ross Perot, Pat Robertson’s 1988 bid for the US Presidency failed for one reason: Jealousy. None of the other myriad would-be dictators were willing to divert power and money away from themselves. He expected their support - and had they exhorted their sheep to give money and votes to him, he might well have won - but it did not happen. (Afterwards he founded the Christian Coalition as a lower-key effort minus the cult of personality, but it never amounted to much either.)
That lucrative business of charlatans and demagogues, as you say, is still thriving - and all the more so as the times become ever more troubled. Certainly what you speak of there at the end would be nice, but Good Old Days do not ever return, and pace the Fifth Dimension, I see no evidence of a dawning Aquarian Age hereabouts.
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Date: 2020-08-16 01:17 am (UTC)Excuse please, but I’m having difficulty with your baseline assumption that we are entering a new era. Nor do I see the Utopian changes of that last paragraph spontaneously occurring. Power is never relinquished voluntarily.
Gimme that Electronic Religion
On the altar of TV…
In the words of old Pat Robertson,
“For salvation, vote for me!”
- Mark Russell
As much of a footnote as Ross Perot, Pat Robertson’s 1988 bid for the US Presidency failed for one reason: Jealousy. None of the other myriad would-be dictators were willing to divert power and money away from themselves. He expected their support - and had they exhorted their sheep to give money and votes to him, he might well have won - but it did not happen. (Afterwards he founded the Christian Coalition as a lower-key effort minus the cult of personality, but it never amounted to much either.)
That lucrative business of charlatans and demagogues, as you say, is still thriving - and all the more so as the times become ever more troubled. Certainly what you speak of there at the end would be nice, but Good Old Days do not ever return, and pace the Fifth Dimension, I see no evidence of a dawning Aquarian Age hereabouts.
Am I missing something?