Comments on: Why politics is a waste of time

By: Jack Muratore

Jack Muratore — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:40:11 +0000

Thank you for your post.
Politics is filled with backward logic. Backward logic in that people already made up their mind on things, and are now making up reasons on why their opinion is correct. This is why it is made up and pointless. It all boils down to arguing in the end.

It’s like saying I want to go buy a new TV, and then try to justify why I should buy one. People do not realize that the real reason is I just want to buy it so I make up all these reasons I should get one. This is politics. Unlike real science where you can not just say this cures cancer and make up reasons why it does(well some people try that and that is why they are not considered good scientists)

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By: scwizard

scwizard — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:08:01 +0000

I write about politics on my livejournal because I already get to talk about Starcraft on temaliquid. Comparing one spectator sport to another >_> scwizard’s last blog post..Healthcare reform

By: Pace

Pace — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:48:31 +0000

I know this isn’t a very satisfying answer, but I don’t think we as a culture can know the answer to that in the current paradigm. Maybe we won’t have any large-scale organizations, because we won’t need them. Maybe there will be loose affiliations of regional-scale organizations. Maybe it’ll be all tribes. I don’t have a particular system I envision, because I think that once we have a new paradigm, we will create systems that support that paradigm. Just like in the Industrial Revolution, nobody had to advocate a particular method of manufacture — individual companies tried out their own, and the ones that worked became commonplace. (Not that I’m advocating the Industrial Revolution as a positive paradigm shift, but it certainly was a paradigm shift.)

Or, in Daniel Quinn’s words, “If the world is to be changed, it will not be changed by old minds with new programs, but by new minds with no programs at all.”

By: Megan M.

Megan M. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:39:13 +0000

There’s one part of this I’m not sure how to clarify: Without the larger political structure, how do the large-scale changes get organized? Do they stop being organized? I can see how the smaller-scale changes get organized — local and regional organization functions pretty well in terms of “We know this guy — we want him to represent us” (theoretically, anyway). But how do the local and regional organizational structures get connected together, get traveled safely, exchange information easily, without something bigger?

And if that something bigger isn’t some form of politics, what is it?

I’m not really interested in resurrecting the rest of this discussion, because I think it’s really played itself out (and might be better continued privately in some cases, anyway) — but this part I haven’t been able to figure out.

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By: Pace

Pace — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:48:17 +0000

Here’s a post I think is relevant: http://www.copyblogger.com/preaching-to-the-choir/

By: nw

nw — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:44:03 +0000

Y'know, this is a good time for me to bow out of this conversation. I can feel it beginning to stir my Self-Righteous Inner Asshole, and I don't want to become that guy. I don't mean that passive-aggressively or anything like that. That doesn't say anything about anyone except for me. I just (try to) know myself, and the emotional rhythms that I go through, and I know that no good will come from my further participation in this context. If you want to talk about this offline, you know where to find me. nw’s last blog post..