Words cannot express how deeply, deeply apathetic I am to the over-scripted, under-salted, utterly contentless display of battling non sequiturs that is the televised political debate. What anyone thinks there is to be gained from watching people try to shove their prefabricated square-shaped answers into the round spaces of whatever question - on whatever topic! - happens to be posed by the moderator is completely beyond me. The fact that it's considered worthwhile, or, worse, a
civic duty, to watch two hours of a bunch of people practicing the art of saying as little as possible is, as usual, a triumph of the advertising arms of the one-armed megacorps that we've allowed to be very nearly the sole providers the "data" (note scare quotes) that nourishes public opinion. These things thrive
because they've managed to train up a nation of consumers to swallow a whole lot of nothing and consider themselves satisfied. That they're entrusted with
any aspect of the political process aside from providing the fiber optic cable network (which, by the way, ought to be nationalized) over which actual statements could theoretically be transmitted if, you know, anyone ever made any, is a travesty.
When victory is measured in not making yourself look like an idiot, the contest you're fighting isn't worth being in. It certainly isn't worth tuning into.
In more pleasant news, my bid is in to name
this little guy Trinitas.
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