The Anticlimactic Nature of Politics

A common fallacy, imagined by theatrical men, insists that the world is a stage and that events conspire in dramatic fashion. These men labor thinking that the world runs itself like a movie where the bad guys always wear black and the good guys always wear white. These men seem to think that everything is a simple hollywood plot, and are blind to the complex machinery drives the world along. They don't see that there are only two political parties, but thousands: not only are their Republicans and Democrats, but their are also Authoritarians, Oligarchs, Libertarians, Classical Liberals, Neocons, Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Monarchists, Technocrats, Timocrats, Theocrats, Whigs, Tories, Aristocrats, Autocrats, Barbercrats, Bureaucrats, Cryptocrats, Endarcrats, Pantarcrats, Plutocrats, among the rest.

This comic book view of reality is partially why so many unswervingly believe that when ever anything happens negatively to them and their country, that the world will spontaneously combust. Likewise, when anything positive happens to them and their nation, they wonder why so little has changed, and why the streets aren't paved with gold yet. The reason for this is because, these men do not understand two simple aspects of reality: namely ROI and Impasse.

ROI (return on investment), while being a term used in financial circles, can also be applied to politics. For example, if a government launches quantitative easing, there will be an immediate stimulant to the economy, but longterm negative effects could potentially poison the economy and kill the nation overtime. While the theatrical man looks at the sudden jump in the economy he is ecstatic, but later down the road, when the bubble bursts, he thinks that Armageddon is upon us.

Furthermore, what these men fail to recognize is that things take time to gestate. They plant a seed thinking that it will pop out of the ground the next day, and are sadly disappointed when it does not. Likewise they are baffled when they return a years latter to find that the seed they planted has not only grown to full size, but has spread it's posterity to the whole garden. These are the selfsame men who invest and loose thousands in get rich quick schemes, and who ignore the profitable long term.

In regards to Impasse, these men think that in politics everything is decided promptly and decisively. They don not realize that the only thing you can expect out of government is endless delay, weak and useless laws, and impasse. Anything that happens in government takes 5-15 years to happen compared to the 4-7 years it takes in the private sector. This huge amount of time it takes government to do things is primarily due to impasse, or that state of endless debate ending in irresolution and nothingness.

Overall, it is of paramount importance both privately and publicly to accept a mature understanding of reality and to recognize that what you invest into something is what you get out, and if left to gestate, what is invested will grow exponentially, unless this process becomes pinned by red tape and congressional debates. If these things are not recognized, it leads to the cartoonish reality believed by the sad majority today. Believing such a twisted worldview, leads the theatric to believe that when Rome fell, it fell in a day, when in actuality, it was a decline that started even before Julius Caesar declared himself Empire, and ended 400 plus years later. When looking to the future, the theatric thinks that America and the other respective powers, will also fall in a day, when in all common sense, our governments will continue in diminishing forms for a millennia yet.