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Originally Posted by Bandwagon Surfer
At no point in history has that ever been true, politics has always been intertwined with everything else. The only people who have ever been able to ignore politics are those privileged enough to benefit from the current political situation. The people without that privilege cannot ignore it because of the limitations politics puts on their life.
To detach it from our politics, think about it using South Africa's apartheid as an example. In that political system it was super easy for the whites to ignore politics because it did not restrict them. But if you were black there is no way to ignore politics, the system was built to oppress you. If you tried to ignore aparthed you would be violently made you aware that politics exist.
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Are you saying that the political situation in North America now is comparable to South Africa under apartheid? Because that's what would be required for every aspect of life to be as politicized as you say it is.
You remind me of George Orwell's story about the professor who gave a talk on Shakespeare at a Communist Party meeting. When he took questions after, the only thing anybody asked him was: ‘Was Shakespeare a capitalist?’
That level of political obsession makes it impossible to appreciate anything else in life.