An Introduction to Politics
Instructor Gilley
October 25, 2009
What is the Role of Political Ideas in Politics?
What a great joy was to listen to John Lucas, the day before Thanksgiving, for he not only makes a lot of sense when he enunciates that we have to rethink the word ‘progress’ but that he is a great logician some one not illogical, rather he has looked around and has observed that our planet is in disarray and that we must as a nation-state embark upon some type of very unique teaching methodology that can help us find out who we are? How we are going to solve our differences? Only he who knows himself can have the ability to reinvent his own life and aid in bringing order in the dynamics of humanity, which in turn will give us better ideas to improve sustainability in the dynamics of the plants and animals. Some school of thought that we can all avail ourselves from it and one system in which we all can win, and one that we can use to improve the general ‘apathy’ and ‘tiredness’ of our American citizens. John Lucas kept the class focused throughout the entire interview by Mr. Moyers. He was our main focal point. If it was not by contributions by many of the international political leaders from Canada, England, France, Germany, and Italy that ‘radiated glamorous elucidation’ to understand ‘human activity’ throughout this introductory course of politics, not since the Roman empire had anyone been so organized, and good at war, quasi-utopical society, as the United States of America. Many claim it to be, if not number one, but best country in the world, yet much of our wisdom of politics stems from Greece and Rome and the aforementioned States. Each one of the countries above has drawn quite different conclusions in addressing the following questions.
1. What is the role of political ideas in politics?
2. What is the relationship between political ideas and political events?
Let’s go over and restudy the subject matter in political ideas in politics and its executions.
What is the role of political ideas in politics?
Before we get straight to the point, it is valid to define the word polity, Hague and Harrop wrote, ‘the Athenian polis operated on the democratic principles summarized by Aristotle […] this ethos applied to all institutions of government within the community” (p.43). History has told us that to bring politics and religion to the work place is a dangerous thing to do, most public detest to engage in this type of conversations, the ordinary man ignores of the art of politics and democracy, in many instances people have lost jobs and good friends for talking about religiosity issues and political ideologies to their coworkers and associates.
What is the meaning of the word ‘the government’? Hague & Harrop answered it as:
“arena for resolving political issues….refers to just the highest level of political appointments: to presidents, prime ministers and cabinet members at the apex of power….But in a wider sense government consists of all organizations charged with teaching and implementing decisions for the community, by this definition, [psychiatry], police, armed forces, bureaucracy, and judges.” (p.5). They are although sometimes not democratically elected, after all the rulers of our lives.
On the day before thanksgiving, a student and colleague made a comment in class about John Lucas Interview, “what will I gain by taking your class? much of what I will be learning maybe useless, for my future job or career is not in politics, I feel some type of an inequality going on in here in the ‘Culture’ of the educational opportunities, why if you go to a university and get a degree in engineering, I may or may not be on top of the ‘popular classes’ that make me feel uncomfortable, I feel I am just throwing money in the drain” said the student and teacher replied “Lucas will say the rich kid will go into physical therapy, or applied sciences where as the poor kid will shoot for a social worker degree, Lucas will make us aware of trade offs, we can talk about integration, efficiency, but bureaucratic isn’t aligned with the needs of the citizens.” (Guilley). In passing is valid to illustrate some thoughts about equality.
What is the roll of democratic ideas of equality in democracy for our politics?
Everybody knows equality is an axiomatic ideology which keep us fighting for our inherent human rights of opportunities and that is a very basic human right, here, in a democratic type of government. Rigby reports that institutions, organizations, universities or colleges pay very close attention of the ideas being passed on the ‘cultivated Culture’:
“Culture is the emanation of the State and its institutions (here one sees how the educational system is regarded as inseparable from ideas about Culture): ‘la culture officielle’, ‘la culture ligitime’, ‘la culture consacree’, ‘la culture cultivee’, ‘la culture savante’, ‘la culture universitarie’.…Culture is the preserve of dominant social groups: ‘la culture dominante’, ‘le pouvoir culturel’. Those who possess Culture are ‘les cultives’, ‘les intellectuels’, ‘les esthetes’…Culture is something that is kept within a small, privileged group, a favourite image here being that of the closed circuit [‘le circuit ferme’], which is sometimes taken to be fashionable social and cultural world of [United States of America or ‘le tout-United States de la culture’, ‘la cultura mondaine’] (p. 6-7).
Is Democracy a handful of monolithic plurality and is it a progressive and political idea for the State? Democracy may be its true form of government; the citizens from a State can have, but only and so long as the minds of those citizens are restricted to an uncorrupt state or condition in their ‘ethos’. When we can achieve this dream, then, we may or may not have an utopical polis it all depends upon ourselves and how long we can keep our morality and ethics presence. Otherwise, we will continue finding fault in our political leaders, bureaucracy and in turn victimizing ourselves. ‘Tiredness’ and ‘apathism” is illogical products and good for nothings.
Why does politics need to be defended? Because, we are surrounded by untrustworthiness amid citizens of our nation-state, perfect examples are found in the Power and the Idealist, As Berman has noted:
“The Red Army Fraction, claimed a fraternity with the new breed of revolutionary groups around the world…Vietcong, The Palestine Liberation Organization, the Tupamares, [of Urugay], the Black Panters. But mostly her organization resembled several other guerrilla currents that got their start in the New left upsurges of Western Europe…The Red Brigades in Italy; the Irish Republican Army in its modern…the Corsican nationalist guerrillas; and the Basque ETA… groups nearly indestructible.” (p. 6-7).
Where does violent behavior stem from and what can negative offences do to one another, and what do we know about mom and dad and their intentions of having their baby? A similar type of questions was addressed through our class course by a female, young, colleague and student who always used to sit in the back of the classroom and some and she was always unafraid to share her political ideas to the rest of the class, such was the case of when she asked, “what is the perfect way to raise a child’? Or some other interpretation of that will be, how has it been the growing of our minds and bodis since the moment of coitus? Restated, how much mental sanity mothers was put in the creating of their embryo? Scientist will claim that taking care of the fetus since the moment of inception and fertilization is of utmost importance than later. An infant isn’t born a blank slate. On the other hand is born with memory, but most of it are painful experiences.
A lot of the minds of some politicians are vague and imprecise, it is true, if we all have negative experiences done to us, then, what can we expect from our political leaders? Well! What they can do the plurality is to subjunctively apply what they know about democracy to their constituents. When fears, upsets, insecurities, nightmares, psychosomatic illness, and organic diseases dominate our politicians well beings and inner lives must be hard to come up with new political solutions and it is understood but they must arise for above the level of ‘homosapiens’ and try to imitate ‘homonovis’ ‘superhumans’ to lead us across the bridge.
What else can we do to combat emotional upheaval in our societies because it sounds like a plague is roaming our world? A good solution to it is that we recognize the ‘common good’ of our brothers and sisters, that we always put them in perspective, i.e. first place, before us, and it is not impossible and in fact ‘doable’ that we become more, more, united to be able to reinvent our aims, ideals, so that the roll of politics is able to play a more important job in our communities and so that we do, too. To eradicate the polluted personalities in our world today is possible, but only by renegotiating sweet emotions with one another, embracing each other, but that can only be achieved when equality administrates sovereignty and only then altruism would prevail, so that is when we would be able to be perceived each other as a member of the community, medical doctors will agree with this ideologies that the eradicating of humankind’s mental diseases is possible before we can achieve our political aims.
Promiscuity in politics is destruction for politics and this is again rooted in the subconscious mind and it dates back to the moment of inception. Cells have memory, cells can store every little piece of information, cells replicate, cells mutate, one can retrieve any movie, plot, or food we ate, words have meanings and one can reactive another’s negative emotional experiences, most information about mom or dad and any other personality that took place in the forming of the baby, such as: ‘a’ ‘b’ or ‘c’ is recorded as memory in the cells. I.e. Every sound, every smell, every touch, every perception, every kinetic movement, and every moment of unconsciousness can be unveiled from those cells. Today we got technology that we can use to re-file a negative experience stored in the unconscious cells of our body and re-fill it into the conscious cells of our brain, so that we are able to think more rationally and take better decisions in political ideas. How can a politician with emotional suffering do a good job to his constituents? In other words government who lack coherent ‘kratos’ (rule) must need to cleanse themselves inside out.
Democracy is the mistress for most democratic governments. It is going to be at stake in those decisions made by a nation-state every one must live with their mistress regardless of weather a lover dislikes her for her unmagical tricks i.e. if she shares her acts of kindness. At least communists claim to be democratic, however, the real trouble stems from the moment when they announce no to pretend to do democracy.
What causes this incoherent behavior in people? Lack of information of what is right and what is wrong about the subject of politics, by not having the true data can then give them the incorrect visual representation. How have the famous political idealist and thinkers listed later on this page done it to perceive what is right from what is wrong to dictate our lives? Well, to able to reason is conditional on the type of factual information and values. A good analogy to represent irrational behavior will be that of an imperfect software program written onto a computer processor unit, like we say before it will spit out the not so reliable answers and judged as incoherently or irrational. How does the roll of political ideas cause the most stress to our political community, nation, and world depends upon the kind of inscription etched to minds of our political leaders and how ‘clear’ these man’s minds are to perceive and to discern the truth.
We really need progressive idealist, thinkers, and politicians who can think logically, and who can volunteer their time, political knowledge, or expertise only so, step by step, we would reinvent our communities and nations-states, the kind of man that we been studying this fall quarter in intro to politics, have contributed with civilizing research in the world of political ideas in politics. They are Bernard Crick, Paul Berman, John Lucas, John Stuart Mill, John Quincy Adams, Giorgio Agamben, Ernest Bevin, Hanna Arendt, Herber Spencer, Hobbes, and Tocqueville.
What would happen to our world of political ideas if we had handful of these man aforementioned? The world would not be the same, but Improvement of our world is caused by shoulder to shoulder effort, everyone pitches in, we all got to do our parts to avoid victimization, belittling of each other and be in denial, we can’t blame bureaucratic governments for all of our ailments, for if we all share our reasoning, things can get less complicated to solve. Regardless, the improvement of our earth is team effort, we would all have to recycle as much as we can for the sake of our living things, i.e. to save the fish and Monterrey pines for compensation is more fructiferous when we give to the earth than when we receive from it, the benefits are always reciprocal; hence, private and public ethics and good effects of governance are required to achieve an utopical perfection, either as societies or political bodies, we got to climb to the summit, but that requires that ‘we’ must agree, for advancement or progress to occur, the sustainability of our ecosystems is growing weaker for that reason we got to hurry up before we arrive at emulating the dinosaur theory and vanish ourselves from the solar system that we live in.
What’s so good about historical facts is that these always repeat. If we need to recount to our future generations about events that took place during World War I & II back in Germany, Austria-Ungary, and Bulgaria with Hitler. By all means, feel free to educate them that is your responsibility as a parent, government official, and magistrate. You are entitled to pass it onto your offspring because that is cultural capital. Your children should have access to all the historical facts of the past. Their peers and teachers will teach them in school whether you take the time to do it or not. Not including looking at the ultimate history of Hitler, one knows that the evil man was very triumphant where one has taught that only good triumphs. Unfortunately, the person was an immoral being. This caused Hitler to have a failure and actually caused his downfall. John Lucas has believed, “American people today are taught less history as before, a hundred years ago man knew more about their past compared to present cultures. History consist of words because we think in words, we have been trough some mutation of consciousness, so people think history is useless, but there is some appetite to be fed, we cannot be afraid of death because we won’t enjoy life. Past knowledge is inscription of people and human life is the desire for more life when our desire crashes we die” (Lucas)
In The Power and the Idealist, Berman reported that the power of attraction for autocracy has its origins in the clear unsuccessful actions of liberalism in the aftermath of First World War. The following trends of ideas, such as: Facism, Nazim, Falangism, Communism find commonality, in two fundamental perspectives, Berman reasons. first they see themselves as a strong government, with scientific ideals, that really matter to our lives, but have a feeling of being opposed by antagonistic, savage, ignorant, primitive man whose only alternative or solutions to their freedoms is to welcome such ideologies to be safeguarded by and that is done by each individual releasing of their negative emotional experiences and helping to purify the rest of ‘fractions’ of harmful ideologies. Meritocracy or autocracy does not welcome new ideas, political system to protect themselves from impurity in their political system. The rest of those ideas aforementioned; hence, despotic governance is complicated, impractical and unworkable.
Politics is a group agreement, politics is improved with communication, the ideas agreed in politics become policy and are ‘implemented by force’ to citizens, but to be able to find common ground among governance it is of utmost importance to have strong communication skills on both sides of the spectrum so as to improve the affinity level for each other which in turn one can then have agreement, yet to accomplish a logical answer on must have logical data, Falangist ambitioned dogmatic religious homogeneity, but Spanish inquisition was bad politics for our ancestors, that is why as for ideals, as for honesty, as for ones love of one’s fellow man, one cannot find good survival for one or for many where these things are absent. On the one hand, the criminal does not survive well but also the average criminal spends the majority of his adult years caged like some wild beast and guarded, both physically, mentally and spiritually in autocratic governments regimes, and for this reason totalitarian ideals shall have to be only use when controlling flock of ruminants, these mammals are obedient, and will not protest.
Morals should be defined as a code of good conduct spread out of the experience of a civilization to be used as a uniform measure for the conduct of the race and the groups. Morals are actually laws. The source of a moral code comes about when it is found out through actual experience that some act is more nonsurvival than prosurvival. The prohibition of this act then enters into the customs of the people and may eventually become a law. You see. Therefore, it is quite simple to spot the truth. It would be require that one knows this subject of political ideas affecting politics really cold before one can embark upon evaluating the so illustrious books that we read in your class. A very deep, clear understanding of ethics, and justice to be capable of providing an ‘unaberrated’ solution to any implementation of any political idea. Many thanks to instructor: Guilley, Crick, Berman and Hague and Harrop for leading the class they are superior and know their subject from A-Z.
REFERENCES
Berman, P. (2005). Power and the Idealist or the passion of Joschka Fisher and its
aftermath.New York: Soft Skull Press
Crick, B. (1992). In defense of politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Hague, R. & Harrop, M. (2007). Political science a comparative introduction. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rigby, B. (1991). Popular culture in modern France New York: Routledge.
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