Friday, April 06, 2007
Office
Diplomacy and Politics is a complex set of games in which the rules do not exist. The guidelines are undefined and the objective obscured. Or so it may seem. At the end of the day, every politician has his own goals and aspirations.
The hardest part in this is balancing the wants of the people and the personal vision of the politician. Duty carries an inherent amnesiac quality; the sheer responsibility of office seeks to erode the core of one's ideals, creating another administrator.
Office carries with it a great burden, and if left unchecked, easily devours the idealist and churns out an automaton. What do the masses want and what you want for the masses.
When the masses demand entertainment at the expense of economic productivity. What do you grant?
What should a leader believe in? Country, people, family, profit, environment?
Or survival.
Gavin
pondered @ 00:30
