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But it seems to me that the American politician (and most Europeans) remains a persona—one who speaks from the standpoint of his or her office. But for the Greeks and Romans, this persona had a traditional and sacred character—for modern Americans it is an empty fiction. One only has to look at a politician like Barack Obama to see this idea manifest. The electorate does not want deliberative messages filled with detailed descriptions of future projects and intentions. It wants to project its desires onto the empty persona that speaks to it through the media. As Alex Birch remarks, “Democracy is political entertainment.”
15 02 08 - 12:33
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