Source: Culture and Anarchy , Ch. Review of Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill, New Leader 14 May Context: It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.
Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, Thomas Mann German novelist, and Nobel Prize laureate - Everything is politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent of cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns. But we must remember this: Politics — in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations — is sovereign in human affairs.
Everything ultimately rests upon it. Likewise for scientists, artists, philosophers, etc. For example, if a crowd is watching a film, they may watch it through any or all of these lens, or none of them. If asked later if the film she made is mainly political, the director may agree that there is a political aspect to it, but the main themes and elements of the film could be religious and aesthetic or scientific.
The film may have something to do with politics, but to see it only as or mainly as political is to miss out on the other aspects of the film. What is true of a film is also true of our lives. Our lives, and the things that matter to us in our lives, can be seen through a political lens, and a religious lens, and many other lens we may pick up. However such lens provided a limited view.
It is better to look at our lives and the lives of others as broadly as possible. We will see more that way. We will hopefully understand ourselves better. And we will acquire a view and a wisdom that those stuck to peering only through lens will never achieve. Image is not of Orwell but Albert Camus, which I felt to be more appropriate. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
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