"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
~ Martin Niemoller
Political Society vs. Civil Society
Submitted by Westernerd on Sat, 2011-12-03 03:00
"Sadly, electoral politics have eaten up far more of life than they are worth. Everything—religion, culture, sports, conservation, etiquette—is seen purely in terms of its political value."
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The title "Political Society v. Civil Society" is interesting to disect, because it conveys as little as "blue vs. azure."
The Polis, (with it's POLITics) = city-State = CIVI-lization.
The words "civil" and "civilized" are merely self-congratulatory words used by agricultural city-Statists.
Brutal POLITics is how the megaPOLIS' "CIVI-lized" city-slickers roll.