RE: Are you Anti-Political?
February 3, 2022 at 8:22 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2022 at 8:31 pm by Disagreeable.)
(February 2, 2022 at 9:46 am)Angrboda Wrote: I'm a political junkie. When I was younger I was apolitical. The 2018 election changed me.
Similar. Until, um, this year I think. Stopped caring again. More interested in COVID now. And just glad that we are Trumpless.
(February 2, 2022 at 9:51 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: These are not mutually exclusive options.
Right. (I did allow you to select multiple, and I also allowed an 'other' box. Do you suggest anything else?).
Quote:Also it is unclear what “anti-political” means.
'Definition of 'antipolitical'
in British English
(ˌæntɪpəˈlɪtɪkəl)
ADJECTIVE
opposed to politics or political principles
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers'
Quote: One could no more operate in a society and object to the concept of and strategy in public affairs than one could live on earth and object to its gravity.
Debatable. You must have never met me before. Or Diogenes. Or Schopenhauer. Or Epicurus. Or anybody who truly matters. No offense. Or do I misunderstand you?
Society is not necessarily intelligent individualistically. Sure, an ant colony is pretty smart but so are individual spiders. But just you wait until you have a colony of spiders ... or Bears more tribalistic and intelligent than humans (hypothetically—it's a metaphor). But I digress.
Quality > quantity. Because the former can also develop the latter. But the latter can never develop the former. Period.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
