I'm rethinking politics...

I'm rethinking politics or more specifically one politician, Michael Ignatieff.  I know him as the author of the book I'm currently reading called "The Lesser Evil.  Political Ethics in an Age of Terror."

Today my son said, "hey that guy who wrote that book is running for Prime Minister."  Wow! I have so disconnected myself from current events that I didn't even know this fact.  I've been on a multi-year media fast that for the most part has really cleansed my system of the garbage of the world.  I learn what I need to learn when I need it.  I've become accustomed to a new process where information comes to me.  Like today. 

Now I want to know.... now I want to find out who this man is who would write such a compelling book and who is interested to lead this country.  What's the connection?  Could someone so seemingly conscious of the humanity within events and people also be a politician?  Ahh...shake up my world...perhaps the answer is yes!  hmmmm...

He's a master journalist, educator, researcher and writer.  Before I knew he was a politician I was underlining important thoughts in his book.  He's not just a writer of opinion but a one who questions the underlying philosophies, the thoughts behind the actions...the thoughts behind the thoughts.... yes, now we're getting somewhere different.

I'm not sold on him yet... actually I don't want to be sold.  I want to be inspired.  I want to believe again in the nobility of a leader who blends action with heart and mind.  To feel even a shimmer of that would expand my limits of what I believe is possible.  Possible not just for individuals but for bigger and bigger groups of people. 

I am reawakening something deep inside me that I once felt very passionate about; the larger collective good.  My journey for some time now has been one of moving inwards getting my own house in order.  Now perhaps, if this leader is who I see he may be, then it is time to start moving from within to without.  It's time perhaps to loose the layers of cynicism that adds negative energy to the world and step forward into a different experience of governance.   

From the pages of  a dark and heavy book I may have found some light in a positive politician.  Possible?  Perhaps.  I'm willing to open my mind and do some rethinking.