[ramon156]

... except politics. If you don't value political influence, then you are ignoring a very important part of how our society is built.

I can also choose to not care about water, but sooner or later my body will say "hmm, maybe you should change this"

[stoneforger]

Everything in a society is a manifestation of politics, it's the cybernetics of society.

[sph]

You have it the wrong way around. In the age of information, politics, that is the art of persuading and influencing popular opinion, is king.

Let's not pretend politics is a natural phenomenon to be worshipped. The fact that everything is politics today is a real indicator of how terminally broken discourse and our society as a whole has become.