Saturday, August 2, 2014
'Politics' has become a 'world affair'.
Politics, like every other discipline or practice, has become a 'world affair'. In other words, our politics, or the politics of any one Nation, is no longer just concerned with the 'home turf'. Our early 'politics' was concerned with 'freedom and equality' within a Kingdom. Later, the need for 'expansion and concentration' on another continent became the main issues. As this new continent expanded 'westward' the issues became larger and more 'expansive'. We had more land, and more concentrations of 'governing' and 'values' became essential. Even afterwards, more 'lands and expansions' were added, until 'wars and revolutions' began to define our 'oppositional Politics'. It was not until the Constitutional Convention, and the structures for governing set out at the 'second Convention', that the final 'Three Branch' structure of government was established. Along with the evolution of politics, there were evolutions in 'mechanical technology' and finally, with the evolution of 'electrical technology', and the subsequent 'information technology' which led to a 'computerized World'. The center of gravity of the 'World' changes with the diminution of the 'geographical reach' of our communication systems. It seems that geographical boundaries no longer define the exchanges of political ideas. We need a more 'complete picture' of the 'whole', we need to 're-configure' a more complete picture of the 'reach of politics'. Important changes have become necessary. If we are to keep pace with the technological advances in the world, we must 'design a politics' that sees the 'Peoples of the world', as the real 'underlying conditions' of a politics of People, as contrasted to a 'politics of separate individual Nations'. It is no longer possible to just 'think', in isolated fashion, of a politics of one Nation that merely strives for, 'more and more power', or 'strength', or 'advantage', on the International community. Of course, that's why we have a United Nations, but, its not that easy; we must 're-configure' the politics of Nations into a politics of 'Peoples'. Of course, we must 'all begin' with a domestic politics that respects and protects the human condition, at 'home', and then, extend it to the Peoples everywhere. But, its equally important, to respect the autonomous Nations of the world, as well as, their possession of 'equal power' on the International sphere. Therein lies our International problematic. The International 'game' is between Nations of equal power. But, even Nations of equal power have Peoples, and those People are the reason for there being a Nation. Nations, all Nations must begin to 'respect and protect' the 'Human condition' once more.
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