Politics is always an expression of the slavery of man. The astonishing thing is that politics has never been an expression even of intelligence, to say nothing of nobility or goodness.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom
If Brexit, the failed Trump presidency, and the ongoing faux-populist, illiberal democracy of Viktor Orbán have revealed anything, it is this — there is no hope in politics. None at all.
So why the obsession?
Moreover, politics contains no intelligence, nobility, or goodness either. On the contrary, politics is now a spiritual deathtrap, and anyone who remains fixated on, preoccupied with, and possessed by politics is a slave.
Full stop.
We are far past the point where one can obsess over politics and sincerely claim to be committed to the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Far past the point...