Antsan, I think I know what you mean. All this effort to slag politicians off for being slags and haramful to society does lead to the question of so what? What does it matter to someone's legislative skill and political finesse if they're throwing bunga bunga parties and porking it all night long?
The obvious counterpoint is is that it's funny.
That's not all of it. My point is rather that politics still has this veneer of respectability and professionalism, which is often enough used to shut criticism down, with cries about how you can't even have an idea about the complexities of international politics and how important all those connection are and all the networking and background knowledge and whatever else people use as an excuse why normal people are not qualified to take part in more serous policy discussions.
But then you look at all that professionalism and respectability and it turns out that the average emotional maturity of politicians is so low that international politics seem to be less about
actual problems and more about petty bickering between people who are completely removed from reality and also absolutely overwhelmed with their tasks (or not, because they don't care). "Political finesse" reads like "being manipulative", "legislative skill" reads like "debating skill" (and has nothing to do with any actual knowledge about what they're legislating). "Getting stuff done" seems to be something close to "herding cats", and because it's so hard nobody seems to care anymore what actually gets done, as if just getting anything done at all would be good enough or even better than not doing anything – "at least we tried".
Animal protection is full of that stuff, where bleeding hearts, who seem to never have seen an animal before in their life, come up with all kinds of laws which kind of
force the owners of those animals to torture them.
The whole "organic food" thing once was about being closer to nature, treating animals, plants and consumers with respect, now we've got organic farmers who let parts of their life stock die of some easily cured disease, only because giving them the medicine they need would
maybe disallow them from selling their meat as "organic". It's now harder for someone to treat his animals with respect and show that to his customers than not doing so and pretending to.
Yes, such issues are complex, but the complexity mostly is made
worse instead of easier. It's already a running joke with me that bureaucrats are the evil twins of programmers, with how they tend to introduce complexity, seemingly on purpose, where programmers seek to remove it. It's absurd how much redundancy is in what they do and sometimes, when reading some official document I wonder whether it would be a good idea to hire a batallion of mathematicians to cut down on superfluous language and make that whole mess simpler. It's just obvious that many of the people in charge of formulating official stuff haven't got the least idea about how logic or set theory works. It's like watching discussion on some kind of philosophy forum, full of contradictions, hidden assumptions, repetitions and sometimes even stuff that looks like it just snuck in there out of habit, not due to some kind of actual need or conscious decision.
Explaining the motivation of something is mixed up with the explanation of how it works, while explanation on usage is omitted, incomplete or contradictory. Everything seems carelessly slapped together, without some kind of editing process or anything at all which might ensure that what is published is actually usable. Most school assignments seem better thought through than that! How can I take this seriously if the people who do it don't put any effort into it? Please remember that "time" and "energy" is not the same as "effort".
It's always about how important all that stuff is, but it's not treated with reverence by the very people who, by their very own admission, should know best.
Most politicians are more concerned about their appearance than anything else. Pretending like that somehow is the fault of democracy as such is kind of absurd, when the mass media already make such a good job of distorting the picture so much that making actually intelligent and dedicated people look approachable should be a breeze in comparison. But then you probably can't do that through omission and reframing, so nevermind…
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