this is basically just "politics" in general as it's played as a game (by all our generous "representatives" and all forms of talking heads).
politics is only real in terms of the nitty gritty day to day experiences of people, the grandstanding and debating and ideologizing is just a game to manipulate people and then some of the dumber manipulated people think that learning politics is a way to be smarter and then apply that to their own bad thinking to justify their shitty opinions.
this is a broader thing i've noticed in the past 5 or 6 years since trump and everything. everybody is becoming "political" now but all it really means if all the stupid people i've known my whole life who didn't give a fuck about politics suddenly have opinions about everything which makes them feel involved and invested but really they don't even know what the fuck they're on about like 75% of the time. they've been tricked and swept up into something different than what they thought they were getting involved in. it's just a show.
"politics" as discourse is a disease. the only politics that even matter at the end of the day is class war and until that is sorted then the rest is just details we get no real control over. there will be real social (not political) discourse when the masses have a say and when they aren't being constantly manipulated and lied to. education is important and maybe one day in a socialist world we can imagine that but until then politics is a cancer and literally is a distraction from solving social issues.
it is like a finger pointing at the moon, don't look at the finger or you'll miss all the heavenly glory.
this is basically just "politics" in general as it's played as a game (by all our generous "representatives" and all forms of talking heads).
politics is only real in terms of the nitty gritty day to day experiences of people, the grandstanding and debating and ideologizing is just a game to manipulate people and then some of the dumber manipulated people think that learning politics is a way to be smarter and then apply that to their own bad thinking to justify their shitty opinions.
this is a broader thing i've noticed in the past 5 or 6 years since trump and everything. everybody is becoming "political" now but all it really means if all the stupid people i've known my whole life who didn't give a fuck about politics suddenly have opinions about everything which makes them feel involved and invested but really they don't even know what the fuck they're on about like 75% of the time. they've been tricked and swept up into something different than what they thought they were getting involved in. it's just a show.
"politics" as discourse is a disease. the only politics that even matter at the end of the day is class war and until that is sorted then the rest is just details we get no real control over. there will be real social (not political) discourse when the masses have a say and when they aren't being constantly manipulated and lied to. education is important and maybe one day in a socialist world we can imagine that but until then politics is a cancer and literally is a distraction from solving social issues.
it is like a finger pointing at the moon, don't look at the finger or you'll miss all the heavenly glory.