democracy

Last week Wednesday, I was on the phone with another blogger in Trinidad and Tobago. We were discussing the elections, the lack of real discussion on the issues by politicians and so forth. We wondered, the two of us, how it is that there are people who don't seem to care about it. After all, we said, everyone we knew was saying the same thing.

When Edmund Gall first wrote about the de facto monopolization of Carnival broadcast rights in Trinidad and Tobago (read it!), he mentioned friend Mark Lyndersay's point that it was more about control than optimization. When I wrote about the issue last night, I took the same tack.