An “apolitical” non-USian acquaintance of mine is reading Obama’s memoir of his time as president and is realizing that this “messiah-ification” of him is completely unfounded.
The whole thing of people calling themselves “apolitical” is so stupid, when every single aspect of life is in one way or the other influenced by the political system it exists under.
I agree, I only use that term to describe people who self-describe that way, knowing full well that it’s a bs term.
I was brought up in an education system that framed politics as what happens in Parliament and around election time, everything else just is. So from that point of view it’s quite easy to be “apolitical”, because you were never taught and haven’t bothered to learn that your home, your job, your commute, your entertainment, etc are all political.
An “apolitical” non-USian acquaintance of mine is reading Obama’s memoir of his time as president and is realizing that this “messiah-ification” of him is completely unfounded.
The whole thing of people calling themselves “apolitical” is so stupid, when every single aspect of life is in one way or the other influenced by the political system it exists under.
I agree, I only use that term to describe people who self-describe that way, knowing full well that it’s a bs term.
I was brought up in an education system that framed politics as what happens in Parliament and around election time, everything else just is. So from that point of view it’s quite easy to be “apolitical”, because you were never taught and haven’t bothered to learn that your home, your job, your commute, your entertainment, etc are all political.