Two reasons why you should watch this.
(1) Jay Smooth videos are clever, funny, incisive and short.
(2) This is the best response I’ve ever seen to those people who say: “Oh I never pay attention to politics because I know it doesn’t matter, the whole system is rigged, every politician is the same, yadda yadda yadda.”
Kim Stanley Robinson had one of his characters in Icehenge comment on this. When another character claimed to be ‘apolitical’:
The deep lines in her face twisted into a grimace. “How I hate people who say that! Everyone is a political person, don’t you understand that? You would have to be autistic or a hermit to be truly apolitical! People who say that are merely saying they support the status quo, which is a profoundly political stance!” (p 257)
Bingo.
I don’t need to watch this video, all YouTube videos are the same…
Lol, in actual seriousness, I seem to remember Andy Rooney saying almost the same thing on 60 minutes during the 2004 presidential campaign and it stuck with me.
===>>> Dominic Brown
“People who say that are merely saying they support the status quo, which is a profoundly political stance!”
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I am not familiar with the author or the book you cited, but this sentence rings a lot of bells in the memory bank. The declaration “I have no interest in politics” used to be standard West Coast code talk for “I support Social Credit” provincially and “I vote Liberal” federally.