Politics & Power Quote by Saadi

A poet calling something a "dead issue" sounds like a shrug, but Saadi loads the phrase with contempt and strategy. The ellipses do the real work: they mimic the pause of someone who knows the argument has already been decided in the room, and who is choosing not to dignify the remaining noise with detail. "VX" (whatever specific controversy it names in a given telling) becomes less an idea than a carcass: not merely wrong, but exhausted, overhandled, no longer fit to animate public life.

Then comes the pivot: "It is political, really". Saadi isn’t confessing partisanship so much as puncturing the pretense that the dispute was ever about truth. In the medieval Persianate world he inhabited, power moved through courts, patronage, faction, and the careful choreography of speech. Saadi wrote inside that ecosystem; his ethics are often practical, wary of hypocrisy, attentive to how virtue gets performed when rulers are watching. Calling the matter "political" reframes it as a tool in a struggle for status and leverage, not a sincere debate to be won on merits.

The intent is diagnostic: stop treating the issue as a living intellectual problem and start reading it as a maneuver. The subtext is a warning to the listener: if you keep arguing earnestly, you are volunteering as background actors in someone else’s script. Saadi’s economy here is its own kind of authority: he withholds specifics to spotlight the pattern, the timeless way ideology becomes a costume for ambition.