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Everything is, inherently.

I wish I lived in that fantastical world where it wasn't :/

its personal choice what to value.

... 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"

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

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.

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