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"Turn off the TV" -President of the USA

There is a profound problem with the societal conversation in America. I could probably attempt to tie tons of different elements of opinion on how a healthy society communicates with one another, and James Madison's "factions" or interest groups and how each working to serve their own purposes creates a potentially disastrous fracturing of cultural opinion, and so on, but I would rather talk about the irony of this moment in the history of human civilization, the modern state, and the United States.

The presidential position is one that implies a position of some element of control over the whole "union" of the USA. As head of the federal government, presidents have varying degrees of control over political and social discourse. National structures, such the media, corporations, and federal systems such as the military or social security are the things that allow Americans of many different regional and cultural backgrounds to find commonalities through uniting in a common message or understanding. As President Obama currently attempts to press for difficult reforms at a national level, the issue of how to communicate these proposed changes becomes the whole "issue."

What am I trying to say? I think that the president is screwed because the previous methods that have been used to communicate are becoming lost in a fractured partisan environment that may have reached its "natural" conclusion. In other words, maybe a strong federal government in a place as vast as the United States has its limits, and frustrated statements by our president reveal this difficulty.

Statements that we should go out and "talk to folks" are interesting, but I don't know if anyone really can do this through an objective lense. People are always "talkin' to folks," and reach some pretty innovative solutions on a small but potentially useful scale, but faced with the size of a governmental or corporate structure, little can be done with those conclusions or ideas.

The structures that define the modern state are inherently indifferent to the "talking to folks" level of social interaction. But at the same time, the national media is not allowing any kind of honest discussion of the merits of certain reforms to take place. In the end, giant corporate interests control the conversation, and individuals and small local groups are left feeling hopeless and apathetic. I don't know what happens next.