[extropy-chat] Re: A view of what politics is

[Jack Parkinson]

Rafal said
  On 10/15/05, Jack Parkinson <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com> wrote:

  I posted this before - I still think the best definition of politics is:
The
  relationships between groups! At any level - from office factions to
  negotiations between superpowers. Politics is only incidentally social
  decision making. It is wholly about interacting communities.

  ### Is buying T-shirts from China a form of politics?
  No! Unless you are doing this as an expression of group values concerning
Chinese group values...

  Is imprisoning an individual dissenter not a form of politics?
  Yes! The group expresses it'd disapproval of dissent - by sanctions
against representatives of groups that oppose it...


  I think something is missing from your definition of politics.
  Rafal

  I don't think anything is missing!

  Jack Parkinson