PAUL RYAN, running for vice president of the united states as a republican, recently visited a "soup kitchen" (a place where hungry poor people can go to get a meal) and spent fifteen or twenty minutes washing pots and pans in a kitchen which was already quite clean.
The cameras were turned on, of course. Let the political attention seeking games begin. But they began months agao, come to think of it. In fact they never seem to end.
What is it about humans that impels them to seek attention? Aristotle had the answer, at least the foundation of the answer, "man is a social animal".
Self esteem is a rather fundamental need of humans. We get that by receiving validation, vindication, reinforcement from...anyone...few of us are immune from the entrancing allure of the camera.
..and when we are involved in an attempt to obtain political power, the gloves come off, and life becomes a constant desperate ceaseless attempt at attention getting.
We comfort ourselves by remembering that in only two weeks the current cycle of desperate attention seeking will come to an end, and we can all relax, rest, and....begin another..
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