Comments on: Fluffy Links – March 21st 2007 http://www.mulley.net/2007/03/21/fluffy-links-march-21st-2007/ Invisible people have invisible rights Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tipster http://www.mulley.net/2007/03/21/fluffy-links-march-21st-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-191320 Tipster Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:53:52 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=1996#comment-191320 I was thinking about the flattening of politics today, but in a very different sense. Actually, it's a bit soon to say I was <i>thinking</i> about it; I'm still only in data gathering mode, reading a long article by a University of Cambridge don (abstract and pay-access here: http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2653) on social theory in a post-communist world. I think a lot of the discussion of politics focuses on specific issues (each of them valid concerns) or on the "sport" of electoral politics ("party <i>x</i> [up | down] <i>n</i> points in the latest poll"), and not enough on the underlying values and systems of relations between people and what we want them to be and why. I was thinking about the flattening of politics today, but in a very different sense. Actually, it’s a bit soon to say I was thinking about it; I’m still only in data gathering mode, reading a long article by a University of Cambridge don (abstract and pay-access here: http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2653) on social theory in a post-communist world.

I think a lot of the discussion of politics focuses on specific issues (each of them valid concerns) or on the “sport” of electoral politics (”party x [up | down] n points in the latest poll”), and not enough on the underlying values and systems of relations between people and what we want them to be and why.

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