apologist's manifesto...

Once more I've absented myself from this little blog o' mine for a number of months, and here I am again trying to figure out why this keeps happening. I have a theory. Politics as played out in the majority of jurisdictions is seemingly less relevant than ever before. In other words, I find it hard to care about current events if the main forum for debating them is politics.

The system is broken, maybe irrevocably so, and any personal commentary an individual like myself might offer up has started to feel less important, less interesting and altogether less worth sharing. On so many levels we live with the illusion of government; politicians and their operatives exist to project an image of strong leadership and good stewardship, but often are completely incapable of either. I'm tired of our political culture. This way voter apathy lies...

So what to do? For now take a break, shelve this blog once again, and consider the alternatives that exist outside of political government. Search out thinkers who don't subscribe to blind partisan politics, but focus on the entire community of human society and the actual challenges we face, not merely the most politically expedient and advantageous ones. Politics has never been a place for idealists, and only rarely has it made room for thinkers. Unfortunately we're in dire need of both right now.