Voting may play the same role, with the endpoint decision being less important than the ritual, and the jealously fought-for rights to participate in it. They don't "do" anything except foster a sense of solidarity amongst their participants. The point of religious rituals is in their collective enactment. I think there's an interesting comparison to be made between voting as a ritual and religious rituals, in fact. The act of voting is a humbling and equalizing one - in voting you (briefly) set aside your personal identity and personal power and act as just another equal citizen among others, willing to take the economic hit for the benefit of playing their small part in the collective political ritual. The point is that you are joining in with other members of your community to make a collective decision. The point of voting is not (as Landsberg stupidly holds) that it is only worth doing if you stand a chance of casting the single vote that tips the balance past 50/50. The Freakonomics boys made the same argument and I answered them there (first comment).Voting is a ritual of social participation. The Landsberg piece you link to is a typically autistic piece of economist crapola. Here are some of my thoughts on voting from a couple of years ago, see especially the link to the Valdis Krebs paper. The libertarian distaste for politics and voting guarantees that they will remain without influence - a good thing from my point of view, but probably not yours. I tried to respond to TGGP in-place and ran into some kind of bug (or moderation), so am replying here as well.
But now I'm a good citizen, and anti-voting sentiment strikes me as puerile.
#Tribes 2 broadside professional
The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Association honored her with a Sojourner Truth Meritorious Award.If voting could change the system it would be against the law, I used to say in my cynical anarchist days.
She has several awards for academic, cultural and community service, including, but not limited to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Achievement Award, and the International Institute of Detroit Service Award. Harper and Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press.
Her poetry has been translated into German, Italian and French.īoyd has produced documentary films on iconic poets, Dudley Randall and Naomi Long Madgett, and published two biographies: Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, which is inscribed in the dedication wall, and she is the poet laureate of the Wright Museum. She composed the official poem for the Charles H.
Death Dance of a Butterfly, received the Library of Michigan Notable Books Award for Poetry, Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall received the Independent Publishers Gold Award, the Library of Michigan Notable Books Award for Poetry, and was a Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Poetry and the ForeWord Award for Poetry. She is an award-winning author and/or editor of thirteen books, nine of which are her own poetry collection. Melba Joyce Boyd, a native Detroiter, is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Wayne State University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
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