I look at it as a matter of both privilege and apathy. I get upset (not visibly, of course) when people say they don’t “like” politics, or blow it off entirely. Politics is not some separate entity, we are living in a society! An inherently political game!
Furthermore, there is no “politics” as just a concept. What part of politics? Literally everything is politics. Climate change and environmental care? Food and agriculture? Economics? Culture, beauty, art? How can someone blow off literally everything? To me its an attempt to shut down conversation and demonstrates they don’t care or have no idea about the atrocities that have occurred/are going to due to the West’s collapse and climate change. Am I out of touch? Being non-undedstanding?
Let me know, thanks
Why, though? Depoliticization is extremely dangerous.
I try to as well, and some of them listen, but most people I talk to are simply apathetic because they both don’t know enough and don’t care enough because the system benefits them. I cannot, in good conscience, say that avoiding and ignoring politics as a Westerner is okay. I again may be entirely wrong but it’s just how I see it.
Because Westerners, and especially Amerikkkans are fascists and you risk getting fired or attacked if you freely reveal you’re a communist
It’s especially bad for me because I am ethnically from an enemy state and I work in a “high class” industry filled with high earning elitist lumpenproles