Oh, the Politics., I couldn't care less! Options

[HakunaMatata]

I've always had this interest in the News and in Politics for so long. Looking at my earlier influences, I'm surprised that I turned out that way, because there weren't very many people at all around me who were even vaguely interested in it.

Growing up, there was a general apathy when it came to it. Sure, my mom voted and I came with her, but she voted for whichever Democrat was running.

Now, in high school (and I felt in middle school, too) there are plenty of teachers and fellow students who are just as opinionated in the dealings of the world as I am (but then again, I'm not the most informed person in the world); in fact, some even more so. But there are still the people who really just could not care less. They think that it is much too complicated, much too dirty, and much too stressful to even bother to try comprehending. And honestly, I can't blame them.

Do you care about politics?

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I am not interested in Politics as I am interested in why things happen. The former is a way I have to know why the world is shaped as it is, why do things happen one way or another and why political groups have different, and sometimes totally opposed views of reality.

I consider each political ideology as a way to understand and to direct the human process along a certain path. So in a way, political ideologies are projections of previous philosophical currents (save the case of instrumentalism). For example, Plato's vision of the state and its practical exegesis brought to us by Stalin; or else Locke's influence over big part of the contemporary liberal parties.

You could say I like politics in general as they are the way different ethical and moral philosophies interact with each other, with the most diverse effects over people's lives.

It's like a philosophy wrestling federation xP