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15-04-08, 12:30 AM
I'm kinda tribevalant about the response I've got to my exploration. Firstly, I'm kinda chuffed that no-one's guest it - a word of similar meaning for politics, that is. And secondly, because of the level of response and interest I may not have to reveal what I think it is. And thirdly, either I'm in the wrong section: The News and Politics section and not the Philisophical section or herein lies a community or peoples that are politically inept.
When I was in higher education we had these two young white females early 20s on the course who were spouting off 'everything we do is political.' I did not agree. I thought about the ordinary Joe Bloggs who got up everyday went to the factory (you could set your clock by him) came home dunk his biscuit in his tea ocassionally slap his wife but done the same thing every til he got his 25 years service silver watch - he's not being political, I thought. And what about those people who state they do not want to get involved or those who often say they don't like politics or shudder when they mention it in the same breath, they are not being politcal, I thought.
Then it came to me one day mentioned by a tutor in a lecture : Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed which basically tries to explain that if you are neutral or proport to be neutral or not getting involved then you are siding with the majority, the dominant force or the oppressor. Those who have received a favourable outcome would be happy with the preceeding status quo . In complex terms it mean those people who are happy with a outcome situation if you supported them and/or your non involvement, because it didn't make any difference anyway. How politically aware are you ?
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