Technically, yes, everything is political if you make it political. But you have to make it political first. Petting your cat isn’t inherently political unless you bring up the government policies and economical structures that allow you to own the cat in the first place, or compare your attitude towards the cat to a political stance, or something else of that ilk.
In the same way, everything is scientific if you study it scientifically, and everything is theological if you consider it from a theological perspective. It’s technically true, but that doesn’t make it useful. It says more about the way you think than the nature of reality, especially as politics are a social construct.
And that happened when the first chimpanzee achieved sapience at the start of 2001 a space oddity. From that point forward, everything was political. You can’t close Pandora’s Box, everything is political forever or until the human race dies out.
Buttering your toast has nothing to do with that directly. You can make it political, yes, but if you say everything is political because you can talk about it from a political perspective, then I can say everything is theological because I can talk about it from a theological perspective.
Most people butter their toast with cow butter, which requires the subjugation, forced impregnation, and sexual assault of cows, at least within modern processes for milk acquisition. You’re buttering that toast with slavery. You can close your eyes and go LA LA LA and pretend it’s not true, but it is. You paid someone to pay someone to pay someone to violate a sentient being.
You are participating in a group that made a decision you endorsed to trade suffering for toast. Toast that you could have made with plant butter, but chose not to. The group, the decision, and the suffering do not disappear just because you’re in denial. It’s political.
God created that cow, and the act of putting butter on toast is an act of creation, even if a small one, which we are prone to do because it is in our nature as beings created in the image of God, a creator. You can close your eyes and go LA LA LA and pretend it’s not true, but it is. You butter toast because it’s part of what God made you to do. The divine orchestration of the world and human nature doesn’t disappear just because you’re in denial. It’s theological.
Technically, yes, everything is political if you make it political. But you have to make it political first. Petting your cat isn’t inherently political unless you bring up the government policies and economical structures that allow you to own the cat in the first place, or compare your attitude towards the cat to a political stance, or something else of that ilk.
In the same way, everything is scientific if you study it scientifically, and everything is theological if you consider it from a theological perspective. It’s technically true, but that doesn’t make it useful. It says more about the way you think than the nature of reality, especially as politics are a social construct.
No, the politics is there. You’re just in denial.
Politics are a social construct. Without political thought, there are no politics.
And that happened when the first chimpanzee achieved sapience at the start of 2001 a space oddity. From that point forward, everything was political. You can’t close Pandora’s Box, everything is political forever or until the human race dies out.
How do you define politics?
The field concerning group decision making and power within groups.
That’s a sensible definition.
Buttering your toast has nothing to do with that directly. You can make it political, yes, but if you say everything is political because you can talk about it from a political perspective, then I can say everything is theological because I can talk about it from a theological perspective.
Most people butter their toast with cow butter, which requires the subjugation, forced impregnation, and sexual assault of cows, at least within modern processes for milk acquisition. You’re buttering that toast with slavery. You can close your eyes and go LA LA LA and pretend it’s not true, but it is. You paid someone to pay someone to pay someone to violate a sentient being.
You are participating in a group that made a decision you endorsed to trade suffering for toast. Toast that you could have made with plant butter, but chose not to. The group, the decision, and the suffering do not disappear just because you’re in denial. It’s political.
God created that cow, and the act of putting butter on toast is an act of creation, even if a small one, which we are prone to do because it is in our nature as beings created in the image of God, a creator. You can close your eyes and go LA LA LA and pretend it’s not true, but it is. You butter toast because it’s part of what God made you to do. The divine orchestration of the world and human nature doesn’t disappear just because you’re in denial. It’s theological.