It is a curious matter that when one reviews pundits, on political, finance, sports or whatever it appears that most of the visionary talk is about politicians a long distance away--2000 miles or so is best.
It seems that though most Americans have "nearsightedness" and have their vision corrected routinely with eyeglasses, the fact is that few Americans have the problem of "farsightedness" where the vision is poor longer range but great short range.
Thus the irony----- pundits always act as though they are "farsighted"------mostly though, whether it is the local news, or local issues, it is rather that folks find it inconvenient to even admit differences in the nearsighted range. In the all consuming effort to please, like a little child being good for an ice cream cone, the pundits act ......blind......and look thousands of miles away.
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you speak of farsighted/shortsighted take a look at the recent chasin artice. That is the definition of shortsighted
ReplyDeleteMr. Huckabee made the comment this morn that you can tell when the fighter pilot is over the target because it begins taking flak.
ReplyDeleteIt is simple for pundits to spew political talk about long distant candidates and issues---it is rare that locals weigh in on issues in easy reach ...it might be uncomfortable.
The Observer was looking for a general equation here, and not speaking of anyone in particular--and the reflection arose out of my noticing that when the flak gets pretty heavy, I tend to use The Tales From Normal. And the tendency may be universal. ya. Kinda like a quantum physics equation.
Chasin makes people take a good hard look at what city officials are trying do.
ReplyDeleteIt is uncomfortable when someone
is pointing out what the city is
trying to do. When certain city
officials would like to do things
with out input from citizens.
Thats what makes it uncomfortable.
They put them selves in that
position.