What Would B The Historic Forerunner Or Synonym Or Simple Term 4 The Word "politics.

fordii · (#1 (**permalink**))

I think I have an idea but I just curious to see how quick someone will concurr, if someone does?
Some years back I was part of a group travelling on ferry to visited NATO and SHARPE [sic] headquarters. In coversation the facilitor of this public relations exercise told me she was studiyng politics at university and I asked her the very same question: what would be a simplistic term for politic where an ordinary layperson would understand ? She replied after about twenty seconds "social interaction," unfortunately for me someone had a light bulb moment and I was interupted. I would however have said," but thats term is longer and more sophisticated than the word politics itself ? Interstingly the word I have in mind is longer than the word politics but is probably older still. So back in cave mans time what practice would determine politics?

fordii · (#2 (**permalink**))

I think I have an idea but I'm just curious to see how quick someone will concurr, if someone does?
Some years back I was part of a group travelling on ferry to visited NATO and SHARPE [sic] headquarters. In coversation the facilitor of this public relations exercise told me she was studiyng politics at university and I asked her the very same question: what would be a simplistic term for politic where an ordinary layperson would understand ? She replied after about twenty seconds "social interaction," unfortunately for me someone had a light bulb moment and I was interupted. I would however have said," but thats term is longer and more sophisticated than the word politics itself ? Interstingly the word I have in mind is longer than the word politics but is probably older still. So back in cave mans time what practice would determine politics?

fordii · (#3 (**permalink**))

I think I have an idea but I'm just curious to see how quick someone will concurr, if someone does?
Some years back I was part of a group travelling on ferry to visited NATO and SHARPE [sic] headquarters. In coversation the facilitor of this public relations exercise told me she was studiyng politics at university and I asked her the very same question: what would be a simplistic term for politic where an ordinary layperson would understand ? She replied after about twenty seconds "social interaction," unfortunately for me someone had a light bulb moment and I was interupted. I would however have said," but thats term is longer and more sophisticated than the word politics itself ? Interstingly the word I have in mind is longer than the word politics but is probably older still. So back in cave mans time what practice would determine politics?

fordii · (#4 (**permalink**))

[size="6"]This is probably a difficult question ? Probably you need sometime to think about it ? Probably and is more likely to be the case you don't know the answer. Or probably you find the subject area boring. C'mon give me an anwer ! What is a word of similar meaning for politics ? SIZE]or are we talking Aristotle and Plato or Socrates - did I hear Maxist, Engels and Leninist.
This is probably a difficult question ? Probably you need sometime to think about it ? Probably and is more likely to be the case you don't know the answer.

meknow · (#5 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by fordii

[size="6"]This is probably a difficult question ? Probably you need sometime to think about it ? Probably and is more likely to be the case you don't know the answer. Or probably you find the subject area boring. C'mon give me an anwer ! What is a word of similar meaning for politics ? SIZE]or are we talking Aristotle and Plato or Socrates - did I hear Maxist, Engels and Leninist.
This is probably a difficult question ? Probably you need sometime to think about it ? Probably and is more likely to be the case you don't know the answer.

I CAN NOT THINK OF A SINGLE WORD OFF HAND...YOU ARE TALKING SYNONYM RIGHT...?

mike pain · (#6 (**permalink**))

talk ? perhapes

fordii · (#7 (**permalink**))

I suppose Mikey, if I may call you thus, you must be in the right ball park, it's not what I had in mind though. I just thought . . . . . . if it was talking, we'd all be politically dead, coz we're all writng now, internet and all that. Maybe the answer is writing ! Maybe, it's more significant than talking. Maybe writing has more of a proven track record ? I think so. Althought in the same ball park, it's not what I had in mind. Maybe the answer "lies" Ureka ! maybe thats the synonym for polities, lies. No, maybe the answer lies between the two, talking and writing. Yes I know an awful lot of maybe's.

Tahliba · (#8 (**permalink**))

Palava

As in, 'what a palava'

The term comes from the Ashanti word for their political dealings.

meknow · (#9 (**permalink**))

Commune . ication

Black Lion · (#10 (**permalink**))

You'd need to define what 'Politics' is first then draw around it as it were, guidance under leadership, perhaps. Thinking that back in the days a leader would be appointed by the people, as in they'd all choose to follow a certain person/s who they entrusted with the future of the clan they'd then have people under them who'd ensure that things were kept inline and hold meetings about what to do next any civil matters and so on.

Think ruler/leadership might be the closest you'll get as it involves politics.

meknow · (#11 (**permalink**))

it is my understanding bl that he is asking for a one word definition.

fordii · (#12 (**permalink**))

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 ?

meknow · (#13 (**permalink**))

i am just political enough to know that it probably is some of what makes the make slap his wife rather than a government official. he is a weak and ignorant man who can not deal with the politics of his world.

you don't need to understand politics as much as you do know how the flow is moving much like the current of a river. if you get pushed in you don't fight against it but flow with it until you can reach a bank and then come up out of the water and thrive as best you can.

leave the turning of the river to the fools who tempt God. you don't even need a boat, just learn to float...

Black Lion · (#14 (**permalink**))

Everything is politics, everything within a system effects that system one way or another.

If a person attempts to avoid the system and takes to being homeless for example he is causing an effect by not being involved, food clothes and shelter would be a factor, his passing away due to ill health would cost money, the fact that he could be working would show up in government reports regarding the status of the country.

The factory worker you can set your w