Politics: The last resort of the scoun#@*%

Recently read the book by Ken Follett "Fall of giants." Interesting story spun around the first world war and the Russian revolution. The book is quite riveting, and brings out the sheer futility of any war. But throughout the book, I just couldn't help but think that really, nothing has changed. Politicians were irrational and oblivious to the concerns of the common man then, and so they are now. Using flimsy arguments and personal prejudices, they think their views about the society resonate the truth. Nothing could be far from it.