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    The document summarizes an excerpt that criticizes modern politics for prioritizing image and perception over substantive policy work and results. It outlines how the excerpt contrasts the important behind-the-scenes work of governing with the superficial gestures and media opportunities that remain in public memory. The document also includes commentary agreeing that long-term progress is obscured by a focus on short-term actions for political gain.

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    The document summarizes an excerpt that criticizes modern politics for prioritizing image and perception over substantive policy work and results. It outlines how the excerpt contrasts the important behind-the-scenes work of governing with the superficial gestures and media opportunities that remain in public memory. The document also includes commentary agreeing that long-term progress is obscured by a focus on short-term actions for political gain.

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    NOTE TAKING

    I. Exact Quotation In todays politics, it is such grand gestures of commiseration and camaraderie that matter and are permanently lodged in the public memory. Not the long hours of planning and deliberation on how to build a nation. Not the sleepless nights of agonizing over crucial decisions of state. Not the years of patient study and sustained work to eliminate the scourge of poverty. In the world of simulated politics image is what is assiduously cultivated and protected. Here, it is irrelevant to compare campaign promises with actual results. Conventional measures of performance such as the improvement in the quality of life of people, or the expansion of economic activity, or the narrowing income gaps are set aside. What counts are the photo opportunities with the adoring masses, the sound bites of presidential bravura, and television clips of instant and decisive action. Plus the surveys, of course, for these are measurements not of performance but of perceptions of performance. II. Outline: Text: (same as above) The paradox of politics:
    1

    I.

    The important things that are set aside (Conventional Measures of Performance) A. Improvement in quality of life B. Expansion of Economic Activity C. Narrowing income gaps

    II.

    The things that count (Perceptions of Performance) A. Photo opportunities B. Presidential bravura C. Surveys

    (David, 2008)

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    Commentary: Text: (same as above) I agree with what David said in his article. What remains to the memory of the people are the

    things that the political people do as they see them in television, as they hear them on the radio, and as they read them in newspapers. The need of having long-term progress for the country is being covered by the desire for short-term renovations like helping people, giving money to the poor and other else.

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    Precis Text: (same as above)

    Works Cited
    David, R. S. (2008). Simulating the Presidency. In R. S. David, Nation, Self and Citizenship: Introduction to Philippine Sociology (pp. 180-182). Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, Inc.

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