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Politics is fundamentally about how groups make decisions. Anything that influences group decision making has a political aspect to it. The status quo implicitl
by Hermitian909 5y ago
Politics is fundamentally about how groups make decisions. Anything that influences group decision making has a political aspect to it. The status quo implicitly carries a set of norms that will impact group decision making and are thus political, this is hopefully apparent just looking at the differences between countries and their political norms.
Indeed, it's hard to find anything that does not somehow touch on group decision making because so little is truly private e.g. want to have a loud party in your apartment? Whether societal norms approve or not will determine you can do that or whether you're forbidden to do that or allowed to potentially bother your neighbors; part of the group.
Once properly framed, the idea is practically tautological. But even without that framing it's usually much more obvious for people for whom the status quo is a rough deal.