Ардчилал, олон нийтийн сонгууль, тунгалаг төр;
Авилгал, хоосон лангуу, хээл хахууль, Их өр.
Хязгаарлагдмал хариуцлагатай засгийн газар;
Хямрал, халтуур, зэрлэг капитализм, бузар.

Чөлөөт хэвлэл, Америкийн дуу хоолой, сонин телевиз;
Чөмөгтэй мэдээ, дуулиан шуугиан, Солонгосын виз.
Эрх чөлөө, нээлттэй нийгэм, Соросын сан, хүний эрх;
Эргүүлийн цагдаа, эмийн сан, БИ, ойлгоход бэрх.

Эмээгийн тэтгэвэр, улсын татвар, гэнэн мөрөөдөл;
Элдүүр, гагнуур, чагнуур, би хаана байна вэ?
Маргааш бүх юм сайхан болно – хий хөөрөл,
Мартаарай, маргааш бүх юм сайхан болно.

Had little to do during the holiday over here, managed to put down some of my less screwed up thoughts 😀

Is poetry really the highest form of communication? Poetry can communicate complex ideas and feelings simultaneously with their emotional components. This makes a very accurate and precise, but all the while very broad modus of communication possible. Poetic forms can even prepare the subject mind to recieve the carried information in an accommodating way, using certain lyrical or acustic tricks, characteristic of that language, which call for immediate reaction in the brain. But let’s look at the competition.

Music is probably the strongest of them. It could be the oldest form of communication of human beings. In immitating the sounds born by nature, it can stir the deepest, most ancient instincts, which even preceed our species. That makes it so powerful, on a level we’re not even able to cognitively recognize, that music is the favorite instrument of manipulating human emotions. Classical music uses this quality and thus can take us with the help of complicated acustical patterns through a remarkable palette of emotions.

What happens if you combine music with poetry? Wouldn’t that kind of synergy create an even more powerful medium of communication? Turns out music is so infinitely more powerful on a basic level, that it mostly blocks the intellectual component carried by lyrics. When you hear a song, all that matters is the music, the tembre and patterns of the singer’s voice, the emotions they create. The lyrical part mostly reaches our perception through isolated words, which punctuate the emotional continuity we’re experiencing, and enhance or downplay it. That makes the combination of lyrics and music extremely powerful, yet so basic that complex ideas and intellectual constructs are not communicated. The poetry has to play the subordinate role of mere lyrics.

I am eating an apple in the Big Apple.
The Big Apple is populous,
This apple is small.
The Big Apple is arrogant,
This apple has antoxidants.
I am eating an apple in the Big Apple.

Сая Larry Diamond, Marc Plattner нарын “The Global Divergence of Democracies” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) хэмээх ном гарчиглаж суугаад ийм нэгэн зүйл олж уншлаа. Өнөөгийн Монголын нийгэмд үүнийг ойлгох их чухал санагдав. Манайд иргэдийг төр, улс төрийн намуудын эсрэг сөргөлдүүлэх, улс төрийн хэмээх тодотголтой бүхий л үйл ажиллагааг “хор найруулалт” хэмээн ад үзэх, улс төрийн намуудын зөвшилцлийг “бялуу хуваалт” хэмээн сэжиглэх зэрэг үзэгдлүүд газар аваад байгаа билээ. Сүүлийн үед шуугиан тариад байгаа иргэний гэх янз бүрийн хөдөлгөөнүүд ч гэсэн хүмүүсийн эмзэг сэтгэлзүйгээр тоглож, асуудлыг улам даамжруулж байна. Бид нухаа авах гээд нүдээ сохлоход хүрээд байгаа юм биш үү? Улс төрийн тогтолцоондоо итгэл алдарч, төр засгаа хүлээн зөвшөөрөхөө байх бол хамгийн аюултай зүйл. Бид хаашаа явна вэ?

The danger posed for the development of political society by civil society is that normative preferences and styles of organization perfectly appropriate to civil society might be taken to be the desirable—or indeed the only legitimate—style of organization for political society. For example, many civil society leaders view “internal conflict” and “division” within the democratic forces with moral antipathy. “Institutional routinization,” “intermediaries,” and “compromise” within politics are often spoken of pejoratively. But each of the above terms refers to an indispensable practice of political society in a consolidated democracy. Democratic consolidation requires political parties, one of whose primary tasks is precisely to aggregate and represent differences between democrats. Consolidation requires that habituation to the norms and procedures of democratic conflict-regulation be developed. A high degree of institutional routinization is a key part of such a process. Intermediation between the state and civil society, and the structuring of compromise, are likewise legitimate and necessary tasks of political society. In short, political society—informed, pressured, and periodically renewed by civil society—must somehow achieve a workable agreement on the myriad ways in which democratic power will be crafted and exercised.

Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan
GDD, 97