Thursday, January 12, 2012

Joseph Heller On The Comedy Of Politics

"American politics is ludicrously funny!! There are many illusions incorporated in the democratic philosophy. They tend to be very pleasing and satisfying but they are misleading and fantasies. One of them was the democratic idea was even possible that there is such a thing as participatory democracy. I think one of the illusions is that we have that is this confident view that by voting we are participating in government. I maintain that is a delusion and it is a ritualistic  routine. The right to vote, I think is indispensable to our contentment but in application it is absolutely useless."

- Joseph Heller


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