Today, for first time, I saw and listened to the GOP child-political-"expert", Jonathan Krohn (JK), via HuffingtonPost. 13 years old?!??! JK spoke at last week's Conservative Political Action (CPAC) meeting. One does not like to disrespect children who should evoke nurturing and similar positive responses, but JK comes off like a Bible Belt child preacher at a revival. Lingering weirdness after the vid. Regret peeking through that fence hole. But since I didn't put up Jonathan for adult examination, and considering the seriousness of the subject he speaks on, the economic crisis and conservatism, I have to desribe his effect as wonderment akin to listening to a trained parrot. Others write the same with better phrasing.
More the issue: is this how "unusual" (bad, strange,...) things are in the GOP? Are we to listen to and equate a sharp witted child to a George Will? Hardly. Are we to equate this child to a Russ (Limbaugh)?...Hmmm, well...maybe this works, indeed,..reversal of this logic leads to 'Limbaugh is just a witty child', am apt label, imho. But to be serious, are we to believe the depths of conservative political philosophy pondered over historical spans by learned adults have emerged in a child's voice at a revival tent venue, the CPAC conference? (Hmmm..Limbaugh the child again.)
(Miles of symbolic blank space here to transmit a loss for words, but here's a try.)
I think my unsettledness comes from suspecting the new GOP base takes this child seriously? It seems they do. I believe in and enjoy child prodigies in music, but life is not a set of instructional or compositional rules. Life is complex and subtle, at least to me, don't really know about you or others but I suspect you're all with me. Never heard of a child philosopher but i am not a student of philosophy. Name one child prodigy in oil painting...maybe there is one which raises the issue of what is art vs technique..on the other hand even elephants paint nowadays...let this go.
A clue to the JK appearance is as I posited in an earlier blog (Feb 26, this blog): to the GOP the child represents not a child but a label, in this case a label announcing the rural GOP tradition of the a religious spirit channel through the biblical voice of a child.
What further demonstrations: of spirit speaking, channeling, calling out, ....might come from GOP morphing contortions? Probably some prize winners will emerge, but to guess what's coming ....the cost to travel to that land of the imagination is too high(hangovers, etc).
As I posited in an earlier blog, the GOP is likely to take on unusual shapes as it morphs along to where ever it will end up (Feb 26, '09).
A third ring to the GOP circus is bound to come...maybe more...it's only March 1, '09.
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