The politicization of culture and of human beings involves the creation of competing fictitious versions of reality. This contrived way of viewing the world persuades the politicized that their lives are defined, even validated, by the political beliefs they espouse. In a politicized world of empty words, where does the individual human soul fit in? It doesn't.
One cannot be sure of living
even until the evening.
In the dim dawn light
I watch the waves in the wake
of a departing boat.
Shinkei (1406-1475) (translated by Steven Carter), in Steven Carter, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology, page 291.
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