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> If everything is political the label of “political” has no power for discernment, no ability to meaningfully partition the semantic space. It’s logically bunk
by lazyasciiart 8mo ago
> If everything is political the label of “political” has no power for discernment, no ability to meaningfully partition the semantic space. It’s logically bunk, mathematically superfluous.
Exactly. Strange how the author just says this and immediately moves to pretending it isn’t true.
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- xigoi 8mo agoPresumably the author does not agree with the premise that everything is political.
- pixl97 8mo agoThe author then has a lot of evidence to overturn that social interaction is not political, and then must go even further to define what they thing politics is.
- AlotOfReading 8mo agoThey do define what they think politics is. The article defines politics as exerting your will on others without consent. Thus, it's trivially zero-sum and we would probably all agree that it's not conducive to enjoyable spaces. The main issue is that it's just a stupid definition. Politics in this sense is just one kind of violence. Most of the things we'd consider colloquially "political" don't meet this definition. Worse, many of the arguments that follow partially dispense with the given definition and unintentionally incorporate the author's implicit idea of "politics" (a separate thing), which makes it a bit confusing to read as a precise argument.