James Steidle makes his debut as a Citizen columnist today.
Like any self-respecting, wannabe columnist, I guess I better start this one off with a quote, in this case the Greek philosopher Epicurus. “We must free ourselves from the prison of public education and politics,” he wrote in one of the few surviving pieces of his prolific writings.
We should ignore the need to continually educate the public according to our understanding of facts and engage in political discourse according to our political ends. For surely this is a bottomless pit of disagreement, with no satisfying outcome for anyone.Perhaps the writers of columns should take the lead from the voters of Prince George, who have by and large disengaged from politics.
Maybe there is something to be said about living a non-political life, which so many of us subscribe to, and perhaps Epicurus is looking down on us in approval right now. I’ve got friends who will terminate a conversation the moment it gets political. And they are probably a lot happier because of it.
Too many of us have heeded the sage’s advice to stay out of the prison of endless political argument, a desire comment sections usually do nothing to temper, and we are poorer because of it, not only metaphorically, but literally as well.
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