Let’s talk about the 'unseen'

The people whom French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda focused on in her work wouldn't make the front page.

They were people who were defeated and weak - not exactly poor, but living on the margins of society. A rather peculiar margin. They are not helpless, they do not suffer from some form of disability, they are not angry with politics. They ignore it, just as it ignores them.

They are neither dissatisfied nor happy. They are not among those who protest fanatically over any issue, they are not passionate and, quite possibly, they are barely informed about current developments. What we call current affairs are of very limited concern to them - if any.

They may be those who respond "don't know / no answer" in polls, but they may also simply remain unseen, under the radar of polls and state research. They are alone and forgotten.

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