Playlist for Show: Long Waves

We must overcome our national pathologies in order to imagine a future. It is common that paranoia, fear, and anger focus much of the discussion in the public sphere in ways that are not amenable to good governance but which well serve the needs of the powerful to prevent the emergence of any coherent and organized public discussion of the public good. Further, the continued use of torture, assassinations, and endless undeclared wars create a constitutional and political imaginary world is divided in itself. John Dewey notes that such as world submerges individuality so creating “unrest, impotence, irritation and hurry” as characteristics of people. This psychological state further undermines the ability of people to live in fullness as people in a society and isolates them from real politics.

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