[throwway120385]

Actually very few things have to be political. Politicising, that is rendering the concept to decision by a "body politic" is a choice that we're making right now, and we could choose to not do that. In fact, we have done that throughout our nation's history, and it's only in the last 20 years that I've seen the rise of "everything is political speech" to the degree that the brand of beans you buy in a store signals something to some group.

To wit there are a lot of totalitarians out there, and just because some group claims to be on your side or looking out for your interests versus some other group it doesn't mean they don't want your mind, body, and soul for their own purposes. We must take it upon ourselves to think for ourselves and to hold our own interests rather than to adopt the interests of the group we're in. Humans can engage in enterprise as a group for their own reasons, and we ought to embrace that instead of seeking to identify so wholly with the group that we lose ourselves.