While reading some political commentary from a Right-ward leaning friend today about the “real motives” behind the Wall Street protests it occurred to me that those caught up taking sides in a politically bifurcated system can do little more than purvey half-truths and try and foist them off as the whole shebang. In looking back on the earlier phenomenon of the Tea Party Movement with my Left-ward leaning friends’ critiques I see the mirror image.
Using mirror as metaphor, it is like describing half a person, but then putting a mirror up to the edge to give an illusion of seeing the whole person. This half person posing as a whole person allows for pronouncements of nefarious connections and motives that are tenuous at best as well as providing a self-serving and incomplete picture.
Is this the famous “Straw Man” of debate fame? The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz longing for a brain? Whatever it is I think this approach does precious little to help solve the problems we face as a society, but is more a symptom of its self-destruction. Maybe we need a Tin Man approach whereby we long for a heart?
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Wow. Nicely written. I agree that we often only see 'half a person' and it indeed gets us no where. I fear where we are going as a nation as a result. Thank you.
Thank you "Fellow Blogger". It just seems surreal to me to have people I know and respect describing these phenomenon from diametrically opposed positions when the truth is obviously sprinkled all along the way b/w them. Due to their vested interest in portraying things in a way that fits their particular political worldview they are picking and choosing in a way that over simplifies things and often resorts to denigrating the "other". Let's join hands and sing "We are the World" together now :^P
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