A Perfect Quote To Share With Friends Who Think Politics Is Beneath Them

[Playinghardball]

Graphic found on the Facebook page of Occupy Together/MoveOn.org

[kentuck]

1. I would include...

the very air you breathe.

[Recursion]

2. The ancient Greeks had a word for people who didn't participate in politics:

"Idiot"

Etymology is fun.

[pink-o]

14. "Moron" is from the Greek as well

d'ya think Socrates, Plato, et al had their own versions of the tea party dumbasses that there are such words in Greek to describe them?

[lamp_shade]

3. Bookmarked. Thanks.

[Jumping John]

4. Just words really. Sadly also. Political decisions are more dependent on money than anything else.

[raouldukelives]

5. Yep.

I do think he was alluding to the power of money without political care considered. Once one realizes the rampant abuse and destruction of our future the mechanisms of their investments or patronage create they, hopefully, mend their ways. If indeed they care to embody the political, religious or ethical standards they place upon themselves.

[bayareaboy]

6. I had an friend who besides being the head scooper at the ...

elephant cage at the San Francisco Zoo, was a poet as well. His shortest poem went like this "words are turds". Yet he loved words and knew that there aren't much better ways to explain yourself.

[patrice]

7. Though words are not the same thing as whatever it is that they ONLY refer to, neither are they

necessarily completely un-related to what the refer to.

Though collective decisions of ALL types have always been the privilege of wealth in this country, so we don't have a basis of comparison against which to test the current valence of "more dependent", that doesn't mean that something CAN'T change, and it especially doesn't mean that when the definition of that "something" is limited by the corruption of money which has oppressed us from the beginning in the first place.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. I suggest the point of Brecht's words escapes you...

He clearly speaks of the influence of money, and he says that it is political non participants that cause that to be the case....
"He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations."
See. From the apathy comes the corruption and misplaced loyalties of those so corrupted. So to say 'well, it is all about money' is not to answer Brecht, who is also saying it is about money and saying apathetic people are the reason that is possible. Jaded cynic is a brand of apathy, by the way....

[JDPriestly]

11. +1000

[JDPriestly]

11. +1000

[mazzarro]

17. B-I-N-G-O!

"Jaded cynic is a brand of apathy, by the way...."

[SunSeeker]

8. K&R

[Tsiyu]

10. I wish every voter and potential voter in TN

would read and understand this. And then go register to vote (if they haven't already) and turn off FUX News and open their eyes to how little Republicans care for them, no matter how many times Republicans say "Jesus" and bash black people, homosekshuals and wymmins....

K&R

[GTurck]

13. I know....

quite a few such people who think that staying out of "politics" makes them superior. They really are the ones who complain first and loudest when the President or Congress acts against their opinions. Most seem to use call in shows on C-Span to let everyone know how ignorant they truly are.

[chervilant]

15. Such ignorance

is abundantly represented in the 'comments' on utube and various media websites, especially conservative websites.

[handmade34]

16. +1000

[panader0]

18. Does anyone remember babylonsister's old sig line?

It was along the lines of Brecht's quote.
k and r

[alterfurz]

19. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics...

...is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato