[MD] Politics and Change

[David M]

Hi Ian, others

Is not politics the art of stopping us using
force to settle our disputes and consequently
dissolving the gains of the social and intellectual levels.

David M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ian glendinning" <psybertron at gmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Politics and Change


> I'm guessing those words are your starting attempt HZ ?
>
> Two initial observations ...
>
> To me, Politics is the pragmatic application of policy.
>
> So yes, it's a social activity, but there is no reason why the
> policies themselves should not be based on intellectual activity.
>
> So, I find your focus on maintaining or creating merely static
> patterns unnecessarily limiting. No reason why policy should not
> enable, encourage, facilitate dynamic quality too. Of course the
> history of partisan politics has tended to preserve ideological
> patterns, but history is only a guide to the future, not some hard
> prediction or constraint ?
>
> Ian
>
> On 8/13/07, Hamza Zeytinoglu <hzeytin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If anybody is interested, I would like to get your ideas on an attempt to
>> re-define politics (in MOQ terms);
>>
>> "Politics is social activity with the goal to enable or to prevent the
>> movement of static value from one group to another (creating change or
>> maintaining no change)."
>>
>> Best regards
>> HZ
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