Interesting, imo, that all 4 of these characterizations seem to be from a "right" perspective, according to this view: https://twitter.com/ShonFeder/status/930409716446121984 … I.e., each of these seem to characterize the political as a way of ordering and administrating decision making.
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decisions are made by both individuals and communities, and each decision impacts both the individual and the community. I don't see how the views I've summarized here are strictly about administration.
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I may have been projecting inappropriate subtext. I read these as characterizations of each pole, and was struck then by the fact that they would all suggest that politics is primarily concerned with managing defective decision making.
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if that isn't what politics is about, then what is politics about?
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From the kind of left perspective I've indicated, "the political is the place where community as such is brought in to play. … in other words the place of a … being-in-common, which gives rise to the existence of being-self."
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can you unpack that quote? I'm not familiar with this author or his ideas and it does not seem self-evident.
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Since this has died off w/o reply, thought I'd chime in with ruminations on trying to unpack these quotes myself. 1st seems to be left is worried about ends, right worried about means. 2nd is politics is more generally the mechanism by which individuals interact in a community.
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The conversation actually continued a bit beyond this, but twitter's threading is confusing: https://twitter.com/ShonFeder/status/1023561834232725506 … I think your glosses are helpful, tho for (1) I think both pursue different ends: left seeks the well being of community, right the preservation/advance of order.
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This reads like a poem and I love it.
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thank you. that's such a nice compliment!
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THE ABSOLUTE BEST ONE OF THESE
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added to my website https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/
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Random nitpick: the truth isn’t always in the middle. If someone says I’m pregnant and I say I’m not, the truth isn’t that I’m half pregnant
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Heuristics wouldn't be heuristics if they weren't lossy :P
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One side is nostalgic for a past that never was and the other for a future, that is never to be.
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plutocrat: everyone should vote with their money democrat: universal gun ownership rights prevents the plutocratic 1% from stealing from the other 99% 'to much'.
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'too much', not autocorrect's fault, i just can't English.
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Public: who is making all of these bad choices? Media: The (whoever they don't support) Foreigner: Your political system is a mess Alien: Hahahahaha... Really? No. Seriously? Hahahaha. Humans. Go figure.
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I believe that people make poor decisions both as groups and individuals, and that some people make better decisions than others but also that we should make our own decisions
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