Sick of Politics

Sick of Politics
By Anonymous
Accusations! Denials! Impeachments! Voter Fraud! Slander! False Promises! Coup!
What Are We Talking About?
To constructively talk about something, we must know what we are talking about! Pretty obvious, huh?
Yet most people are clueless as to what politics is all about! For most people, politics is much like God — and that means, everyone has their own idea about it!
But what, objectively speaking, is “politics” and where does “politics” rank among the bigger scheme of things?
The history of political thought can be traced back to early antiquity, with seminal works such as Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Politics, the works of Confucius and Arthashastra, and Chanakya neeti by Chanakya in 3rd Century BC.
If we look at the etymology — in other words, “Where the Heck Did the Word Come From?” — we find the word “Politics” comes from the same Greek word. Popularized by the title of Aristotle’s book, it comes from the ancient Greek word: Πολιτικά (romanized into Latin as Politiká, Politicus), meaning “affairs of the cities,” “of, for, or relating to citizens,” “civil” “civic,” “belonging to the state,” etc.
Derivatives of politicus are the words polites (pronounced “polytess”), meaning “citizen” and also the word polis, meaning “city.” Cities, in those times, were much like a mini-state or a mini-nation. Notice the similarity with our word “metropolitan” which means a large urban area, usually one that includes a city and its suburbs and outlying areas. (more…)



