- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
alt-text for thumbnail: text saying “apolitical friends don’t exist” next to the progress flag on a 2d digital art wooden background
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Remember kids, Jim Crow laws were not identity politics. Opposing them, that was identity politics.
Politicians are nothing but criminals whom society has given power to rule over themselves.
nah criminals are cool, the issue with politicians is that they make law
Not all criminals are good. Pirates are, murderers aren’t
not all murderers are criminals, in fact I would say the worst weren’t
whether or not the murder was legal is of no consequence
this is like me saying “trans people are cool” and you replying with “actually blaire white is a fascist and she is trans”
You do have a point. Governmyth fake wars like the US invasion of Iraq are the biggest murders of recent history and i dont see Bush in jail.
This is why in my opinion it is better to say people are unethical/immoral than ‘criminals’ when they do something genuinely harmful.
Criminal is kind of a useless or neutral word if the point we want to get across is that someone actually did something heinous would do or is doing too, and I wish more people would recognise that.
The ironic thing is defining a view of what is meant to be not political… is political. In the end everyone telling others what they should do, when said persons do not want to do it, is political. That is power. The act of the use and engagement of power could, in the end, be called politics.
The video is an odd one because it states a big problem (not looking at problems does, most of the time, aid enforcing the problem to stay. Usually out of embarrassment because people do feel on a subconscious level they are contributing to it, they just don’t want it to be said. They don’t want it publicly admitted due to said embarrassment) and also makes reference to how to not be political.
In the end there is one way to not be political. Simply choose not to have power over anyone else. That brings a few problems doesn’t it… money is a physical manifestation of power. ‘Do this for me because I am paying you to do it’. You could simply break that system by using money wrong then. Use it not as a means of power but as a token of appreciation for work voluntarily done (donating to a lemmy instance which allows usage for free also counts, when you can afford to, for example). Start moving more towards relying less on services and premium items, and become more capable with living on what you can have with your own hands. It is not going to make power vanish fully, therefore politics vanish fully, but it is a start—you’ll never get anywhere without starting somewhere. And what you may achieve in the end will probably surprise even you, let alone people around.
I can make one claim. Whether it is believed is another thing. Living is this way, as well as choosing to have no power over others while not letting people have power over you, makes it extremely difficult for political people to run free doing what they want (gaining benefits at the cost of other people). Most people who live by ‘ignorance is bliss’ cannot live this life because as you start trying to live like this, your subconscious mind starts throwing all these problems right in your face—because these problems are always there, people simply, consciously, refuse to perceive them. And your subconscious mind just goes ‘no’ to that, whether you like it or not. So you abandon the ignorance is bliss attitude, or abandon trying not to have power over others.
In the end, people who are not political are hardest to perceive, because what they essentially do is ‘minding their own business’. If you see a chill person around who’s basically carefree yet pretty helpful to anyone facing general problems, you may just have found a person who is not political around you. Or at least someone who has worked towards getting there. These people are generally going lower, away from the shit, than higher and more visible. So if you aim for the heights of achievement and acknowledgment, good luck perceiving them even when they’re right in front of you. These people are found everywhere—many have money, many have not as much to not be poor yet somehow seem content in life.
