Opinion: For politicians, the hardest intellectual test is to not fall into boilerplate rhetoric — what Harold Innis called the “grooves of thought” always lurking to channel us down conventional, befuddling mental pathways.
. It dwarfs many better-known wars. All in the name of a war on drugs, on coca — “the sacred plant of the Incas,” said Petro.
We in the rich world may be reluctant to speak this way, or sound as if we want to limit growth in poor countries. Coming from the south, Petro hasn’t those constraints.
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