Politics is the art/science of governing – which itself is ‘holding control over a government’ - which is to ‘hold control over people’. This is inherently imbalanced, since it is always the case that governments use a monopoly on violence to overpo…
Politics is the art/science of governing – which itself is ‘holding control over a government’ - which is to ‘hold control over people’. This is inherently imbalanced, since it is always the case that governments use a monopoly on violence to overpower anyone who they effectively choose to.
The degree to which they can do this depends on:
the degree to which the court/police/military systems are corrupted
the degree to which the average person goes along with it – whether consciously or otherwise.
People support politics because they have been taught to believe that it is in their best interests to do so – sometimes because they will get beaten if they don’t support politics or for more positive reasons, such as that they think they can gain something through it. However, in almost all cases, nearly everyone loses valuable things as a result of politics and the things they think they gain could have been gained in other ways without losing out what they really need to be keeping.
Both the points which define how much a political group can abuse others rely on:
deception
denials
manipulation
social engineering
hierarchy
heartlessness
Either the politicians are using these to manipulate other people or the people are doing this to themselves and each other (consciously or unconsciously).
The only way to have real balance – where balance is defined as ‘no person or thing is overpowering any other’ - we need to end these 6 dysfunctions. The result will be actual free will, which itself then leads to greater personal empowerment and peace.
If we don’t create real peace then we are stuck in a power struggle forever – with constant casualties and no real progress. Do you really think ANY real progress has been made in human history? REALLY? We have more advanced technology than we did in the last few thousand years – but setting aside the high probability that lost civilisations advanced their technology even further and were then ..
