RE Where Do We Go From Here?

See David Kaiser's current post.

This is perhaps my favorite phrase "...they have become more and more detached from reality--...."

I have been reading Hanna Arendt, Origins, on and off, and she has some very interesting passages, mid book, Ch. 11 especially sec. II, on themes I see as somewhat similar, what I would call the 'plasticity', as it were, and mediatedness, of political reality.