The Politics of Insanity | Emanuele Corso

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The Youth of Aristotle (1875) Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837-1888) Photo: ketrin1407/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust

March 13, 2015

In the “Politics,” Aristotle says: “The mere establishment of a democracy is not the only or principle business of the legislator, or of those who wish to create such a state, for any state, however badly constituted, may last one, two, or three days; a far greater difficulty is the preservation of it.”

Today we are confronted with the preservation of American democracy in the face of an ongoing political assault on behalf of oligarchs and assorted religious zealots. Something has gone terribly wrong in a society when elected representatives of the polity are hell-bent on destroying that polity’s social contract on behalf of sociopathic billionaires.

At the end of the film, “King of Hearts,” Alan Bates’ character enrolls himself in an insane asylum to escape the madness of war. Where do we go to escape the madness this country is becoming?

Whether it’s a U.S. Representative speaking about an imminent attack on U.S. soil by the ISIS group, “Boca Raton,” or a cop in Jackson, Mississippi, feeling sufficiently threatened by a 6-year-old child to draw his revolver, or the Georgia legislator who introduced legislation to prohibit the mixing of human embryos with jelly fish cells to prevent creating “glow in the dark” children. We are sailing along the shores of insanity. It’s a refrain from the Pink Floyd tune Brain Damage, "... and everyday the paperboy brings more,” that comes to mind.

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Emanuele Corso, "looking like an old Sicilian," with "genius cat" Sheba