Sandwichman wrote:
I would say it's not only possible but it's observable. Long ago, it struck me that political activists were much more interested in issues that were in some sense remote from the daily lives of people around them. I would attribute that to two things: 1. people can engage the remote issues at a prescriptive "executive" level -- theory, journalism, day-dreaming -- where day-to-day matters may seem to be less amenable to such abstraction and 2. engaging with more immediate issues takes people into the uncomfortable realm of their own unavoidable complicities, equivocations and less-than-saintly motivations.
. In short, they might actually have to do something that might affect them, might require one take responsibility for thought and action as a unified whole? Horrors! Leigh
