Comment by ohashi
9 years ago
Politicians are people, they definitely are changing the world and affecting people's lives. If you care about your society, the world in general, then it is relevant.
9 years ago
Politicians are people, they definitely are changing the world and affecting people's lives. If you care about your society, the world in general, then it is relevant.
I think the question isn't whether it's relevant, but whether it's an efficient way of doing things.
Efficient or not, politics does change the world (both for the better and worse), so it'd be foolish not to at least pay attention.
True. The problem is - most of the political public sphere is just noise. To the point that e.g. following regular media sources is just a waste of time (and risks infecting the brain with lies).
Being efficiently engaged in local or global politics has little to do with discussing e.g. the latest media blunder of a politician, or whatever promise they made that probably won't happen anyway.