读麦·报告·正在光速下生存（1974）·019

The new politics is in the same position. The old politics had parties, polities, planks, opposition. The new politics is concerned only with images. The problem in the new politics is to find the right image. So search committees are formed to find the candidates who have the right image. Man-hunting has become a great big business in the military world and the commercial world and the political world. Image-hunting is the new thing. Polities no longer matter because whether your electric light is provided by Republicans or Democrats is rather unimportant compared to the service of light and power and all the other kinds of services that go with our cities. Service environments have taken the place of political policies, or so it seems.

新政治也到了同样的田地。旧的政治有党派、政体、政纲、阻挡党。新政治只存眷形象。新政治中的题目便是要找到符合的形象。是以，人们建立了招募委员会，以查找具有符合形象的候选人。在这个军事天下、贸易天下和政治天下里，对人的搜刮已经成为一宗统统的大买卖。形象搜刮是复活事物。政治建制不再紧张，由于与电灯和电力办事以及与我们城镇相配的全部其他办事相比，你的电灯是由共和党人照旧民主党人提供的并不紧张。办事情况已经代替了党派政体，大概看起来云云。

按：电子期间，随着旧消息变更成新消息，新政治也显现了：全部的方面同时产生、全部的人都卷入此中，党派政体让位于形象代表，铁打的办事情况、流水的政治人物。思之中国。

电子期间早期，对人的搜刮是大宗买卖。换一个思绪来看，对人的搜刮，有一种自上而下的预设，反衬出人们自下而上的自我展示还很不敷。