Up, Simba

Up, Simba was excruciatingly long, and for most of the beginning I had to literally force myself to stay awake. Wallace kept pointing out every minuscule detail, from what kind of laptop each reporter on the bus had, to what each person was doing at every second of every day. Granted, this provided vivid insight into the daily lives of these characters , but it dragged on and on and on and on. Detail is great, and I'm all for it, but I didn't need to know every tiny thing!

But towards the end, the article really picked up. When he started questioning the validity of politics in general, and posed really insightful thoughts on stuff I had never even thought about, it completely changed the way I looked at politics in general. Like when he left us wondering whether McCain was really sincere about the whole Chris Duren incident. Was what McCain did really for the interest of Chris or for himself? How can we ever possibly tell? And then, the bigger picture: are young voters simply not apt to believing anything politicians say nowadays because we've become so accustomed to hearing the samething over and over again? These thoughts really got me thinking about how rhetoric has become so ingrained in everything that we see, it's hard sometimes to not notice the positive and negative effects that come with it. Can young voters ever actually believe in a politician ever again, even if he claims to speak the "truth"?