The Image of Greatness Is Not Greatness
I don’t know if stunned is the proper word, because I’ve become a little too cynical for stunned, but certainly I’m amazed at how this administration regularly talks about their image and controlling their image and polishing their image, as though it meant something substantive.
This president has just discovered poverty as if it were some secret being kept from him, which, now that I think about it, might not be all that far from correct. Remember his Dad, nonplussed by bar-codes in the super-market? It makes on wonder if we can really afford presidents who have lived their lives in the bubble.
John Stuart Mill, a nineteenth century philosopher and economist, said “Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.” It becomes painfully obvious that a man or an institution or a business based on the image of capability and dedicated t…