Stuff of metabolism
The terme for politics has
changed a lot in time. I won't go into details about that, but I'd like
to point to the origin:
The word 'politics' is greek and means originally 'the art of administering a state'.
When one looks at the political activities these days, it is hard to
put politics in connection with art.
Without problems on the hand it seems possible to look at the term
politics under the light of 'stuff of
metabolism'. Also the
politics of traffic. You will see: the stuff, the theme of politics is
first of all only written on paper.
Once politics changes its direction, the result is new stuff, new
diffently written-on paper.
In a democracy it has been
shown useful that not each one takes part for oneself in politics -
even if that happens again and again and is nothing to be complained
about. Humans organize themselves into partys.
Those give themselves programs,
written-on paper. Does the program change, new written-on paper evolves.
The partys form governments.
Sometimes one party governs by itself, most of the time several partys
govern together. They form coalitions.
A paper forms, a commitment for coalition. Does the government change,
a new paper comes into being. And even in a government by one party only, as
we have it at the moment in the Hamburg
Buergerschaft (council), new written-on
paper comes into being: a program for
governing.
And this can be quite different than the one before, even if the now
governing single party was part of the coalition before. Take for
example the area Altona, where I am from. The CDU (Christian
Democratical Union) has formed a coalition with FDP (Free Democratic
Party) and the Schill-party. Even if we do not want to predict the
result of the negotiations and meetings of the members: you can
imagine, that the commitment between CDU and GAL (Alternative Green
List) presents quite a different stuff than the one that was before the
change over.
To reduce politics to written-on paper does not do it justice
probably. But if the politicians, hence the human beings who turn to
forming the commonwealth from the direction of state affairs,
were honest then they would have to admit that a lot that is written on
paper does not deserve the term 'contents'.
Much is void of contents.
Much - not everything. As a matter of fact one more part of politics is
the contents and their 'making reality'. But if there are contents
on the paper then on the otherhand politicians have to admit that a
large part of the contents noted on the written-on paper
will never leave that paper and it will not come to realization.
But still: part of politics is also the
realization of contents. First in the means of written-on paper,
of laws, rules and other state norms.
Does the government change, also part of the matter changes: the
realizatiojn of contents changes. written norms are changed. And by
that also the actions of the
administration and the actions of each individual.
Contents are put into reality also in other means but only through just
norm giving. Politicians can - as all other human beings too - live
values. also through that actions of individuals can change.
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