Everything has always been political. Just because you’re too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn’t mean anything except that you’re usually oblivious.
That is ignoring the fact that the sky and grass are objective realities. “Politics” is all subjective. These are not the same thing, and your comparison is disingenuous and cynical.
True, you cannot avoid politics if you interact with others, hell, the family itself is the very first political unit. However, politics in the sense of news and elections is not the same, and is entirely avoidable. Your friends and families will tell you the important things anyway… it reminds me of the old blog post about avoiding the news, by Aaron Schwartz, well worth a read http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
What’s the difference between your friends and family telling you important things and commenters here doing so?
While the interpretation and assessment may be different, they’re fundamentally the same.
I really don’t get the distinction between objective reality and subjective politics. They were mentioning the objective reality of politics influence, not the subjective practice of politics.
It doesn’t matter if it’s subjective or objective, it exists.
I don’t need a lecture about Aaron Schwartz and I assure you he wasn’t so childish as to think politics should be ignored and “suck it” in the way you imply it should be. You’re simply inventing your own definitions and separating out things that can’t be separated.
Everything has always been political. Just because you’re too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn’t mean anything except that you’re usually oblivious.
Willfully. Politics can suck it
You may as well tell blue skies and green grass to suck it. It exists and dictates your world whether you want it to or not.
That is ignoring the fact that the sky and grass are objective realities. “Politics” is all subjective. These are not the same thing, and your comparison is disingenuous and cynical.
True, you cannot avoid politics if you interact with others, hell, the family itself is the very first political unit. However, politics in the sense of news and elections is not the same, and is entirely avoidable. Your friends and families will tell you the important things anyway… it reminds me of the old blog post about avoiding the news, by Aaron Schwartz, well worth a read http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
What’s the difference between your friends and family telling you important things and commenters here doing so?
While the interpretation and assessment may be different, they’re fundamentally the same.
I really don’t get the distinction between objective reality and subjective politics. They were mentioning the objective reality of politics influence, not the subjective practice of politics.
It doesn’t matter if it’s subjective or objective, it exists.
I don’t need a lecture about Aaron Schwartz and I assure you he wasn’t so childish as to think politics should be ignored and “suck it” in the way you imply it should be. You’re simply inventing your own definitions and separating out things that can’t be separated.