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What is the foundation of all politics? Answer below.
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The foundation of all politics?
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In the words of Mao... (Score:2)
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
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So, before a politician makes a speech, they require Mao's gun? How many of these guns are there?
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How many of these guns are there?
I don't know. But, one time I asked Mao if I could see his gun. He said, "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours." That's when I got uncomfortable, and left.
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Power is not the same thing as politics, though they are related. One could say that politics is the root of all power. Rather, politics is only one root of power. What then is the root of politics?
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That's true, but we are the root of everything related to all human activities. So the statement is not as useful as the one I am thinking of. See the latest journal entry.
Nippliciuous (Score:1)
The foundation of all politics?
It comes from the politics gene. In ancient times, the amoeba that survived carried this gene on so that the world will be more interesting.
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Before Ronald Reagan decided that taxes were bad, he fucked an amoeba? Intriguing, but probably not accurate.
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It looks like you've read something of what I've written. Therefore you know well that my thinking about politics is not shallow, unless I choose it to be. I write about trivial things sometimes, for the same reason I masturbate. Picking on Jonah Goldberg is an ejaculation. And there's nothing wrong with masturbation, unless the audience was confused about what kind of show they were seeing.
So what then is the root of ALL politics? Not just authoritarianism, but the opposite of authoritarianism as well?
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I said elsewhere that it's matching resources to desires.
If it's a noun, and the answer is below, then I'm left to wonder if this is some Zen "turtles all the way down" jape. If that's the case, bravo.
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You are VERY close. It's a noun. Matching resources to desires is close, but not quite. You're on the right track.
So I ask you, what guides the matching of resources to desires? What makes me allocate more to prisons and less to fire departments (or vice versa)?
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Greed, Selfishness, Suspicion and Fear.
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Nope, that doesn't explain why something like Head Start is funded, or why there are wheelchair ramps on buildings.
The word I'm looking for has to explain ALL politics.
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Graft
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Really? Shit, I thought that the wheel chair ramps were meant to provide equal access.
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Equal access to the city and state coffers for the cement contractor.
Think like Bugsy Seigel...
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I'm assuming that you're the same AC that called me shallow, yet you don't seem to have a clue of what the foundation of all politics is. It's so simple you'll kick yourself.
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Well fuck then, I misunderstood you. But we may as well play this fun game that you caused me to start anyways.
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what guides the matching of resources to desires?
You venture into the realm of the subjective. You have to pick a theoretical model for behavior, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Glasser [wikipedia.org]'s Reality Therapy or something, to ATFQ on "what guides".
Or, you can go with the _really_ old approach, "All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.--Eccl 6:7"
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I'm not sure that level of detail is neccessary.
And Ecclesiastes doesn't hit the target either. It's very simple. One word.
my guess is ... (Score:1)
self-interest.
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Sorry, that doesn't describe why one person is in favor of the death penalty, and why his brother in identical circumstances is opposed to it.
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How close am I?
Anyway, I am right... for when the brother was sentenced to the death penalty for raping his sister, who is the sole support of her eunich brother who supports the death penalty. Once right, always right. QED.
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The answer is morality. And self-interest is an imprecise way of specifying just a single moral value.
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Rats! I was so close. I am glad I did not guess "42".