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Why everything is not political is relatively easy to justify. Just because everything is affected by policy and how a government governs does not, in turn, mean that everything is political. It's like saying everything is historical because it all happens in a way that will be recorded for future generations and how past decisions and actions have consequences that will inform future consequences and actions.
It's more operationally unhelpful as we define such things to be as specific as possible as to both help us to solve specific issues as they arise and to prevent over-reaching. It's hard to solve a problem if you connect it to a grand narrative where every aspect of everything is informed by how you act in a specific case and how said case fits into the larger framework of your ideological lens. It's better to try and tackle issues with the specifics of each case and inform a course of action based upon it, as there is no one belief system or ideology that will allow you to most effectively solve every issue that arises. Anyone that tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something, trying to convert or manipulate you, or has his hand your pocket and a pistol to your neck.
It's more accurate in my opinion to actually say everything is philosophical, as everything is an argument and the bones of said argument, the very root of idea, is philosophy. Philosophy is merely any advanced form of reasoning and thought and so is more general as a catch-all for everything or at least as an explanation for everything, though science, too, would fit into this as the two disciplines are intrinsically connected through epistemological reasoning. Politics, itself, is a subbranch of Philosophy, as nearly every political ideology or institution has its roots in the field. Economics, science, religion, etc. all draw from it, as does mathematics, politics, art, and any argument man has ever had or could ever present.
Lastly, the most common defense for the claim that "Everything is political" is that every action people make is made by a person who hold specific ideological or philosophical beliefs, and that it may consciously or unconsciously inform said decision making. My issue is that this implies both that man can not divorce himself from political belief and that this claim is fundamentally unfalsifiable, which means that it can never be proven nor disproven through testing and thus must be disregarded. There will be times when a thought or action is not influenced by politics in any way. For instance, a syllogism such as "The sky is blue, I like the color blue, therefore I like the color of the sky" has no political influence on its logic. Man will act on instinct, or will commit to basic reason without having any conception or action informed by his own ideological lens. Man is not a slave to his own instincts, nor is he a slave to the society or culture in which he lives in, nor is he toy of his own unconscious mind as Freud believed. Instead, man is an exceptionally complicated and almost arbitrary being, a self-contradictory and ever-changing and unpredictable creature that one can spend a life time observing and never able to truly predict what any one individual will do in an instance with one hundred percent accuracy. Such simplistic lens as "everything is political" thus fail to meet the complex nature of the universe in which easy answers are most often the first to be proven wrong.
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It's more operationally unhelpful as we define such things to be as specific as possible as to both help us to solve specific issues as they arise and to prevent over-reaching. It's hard to solve a problem if you connect it to a grand narrative where every aspect of everything is informed by how you act in a specific case and how said case fits into the larger framework of your ideological lens. It's better to try and tackle issues with the specifics of each case and inform a course of action based upon it, as there is no one belief system or ideology that will allow you to most effectively solve every issue that arises. Anyone that tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something, trying to convert or manipulate you, or has his hand your pocket and a pistol to your neck.
It's more accurate in my opinion to actually say everything is philosophical, as everything is an argument and the bones of said argument, the very root of idea, is philosophy. Philosophy is merely any advanced form of reasoning and thought and so is more general as a catch-all for everything or at least as an explanation for everything, though science, too, would fit into this as the two disciplines are intrinsically connected through epistemological reasoning. Politics, itself, is a subbranch of Philosophy, as nearly every political ideology or institution has its roots in the field. Economics, science, religion, etc. all draw from it, as does mathematics, politics, art, and any argument man has ever had or could ever present.
Lastly, the most common defense for the claim that "Everything is political" is that every action people make is made by a person who hold specific ideological or philosophical beliefs, and that it may consciously or unconsciously inform said decision making. My issue is that this implies both that man can not divorce himself from political belief and that this claim is fundamentally unfalsifiable, which means that it can never be proven nor disproven through testing and thus must be disregarded. There will be times when a thought or action is not influenced by politics in any way. For instance, a syllogism such as "The sky is blue, I like the color blue, therefore I like the color of the sky" has no political influence on its logic. Man will act on instinct, or will commit to basic reason without having any conception or action informed by his own ideological lens. Man is not a slave to his own instincts, nor is he a slave to the society or culture in which he lives in, nor is he toy of his own unconscious mind as Freud believed. Instead, man is an exceptionally complicated and almost arbitrary being, a self-contradictory and ever-changing and unpredictable creature that one can spend a life time observing and never able to truly predict what any one individual will do in an instance with one hundred percent accuracy. Such simplistic lens as "everything is political" thus fail to meet the complex nature of the universe in which easy answers are most often the first to be proven wrong.
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