If I wanted to know about the ridiculous state of politics in this country I would read the paper, or watch the news. We are inundated with this crap all day long. I'm really getting sick of reading about it here. As far as I know, this site wasn't created to be a megaphone for political viewpoints.

Do what I (and many others do,) just ignore it. Don't bother reading it.

I really wish we could ignore certain forums, it would make it so much easier.

Politics, religion, people making laws requiring conformity to how they think other people should and should not live their lives. Yep, I'm sick of it too, which is why I avoid reading/seeing news. Kind of tired of the EA too; so many discussions are now social and political. Few people actually interested in pursuing their eunuch fantasy or reality. Boring. We need to encourage more politicians to become eunuchs!!!!!!!!!!

Then why do you read it

It is in a separate section of the archive all by itself

I can read it but cant comment because I was told not to comment in that section anymore

I do find the comments in the political section to be very good...more thought out than most..it is just free speech

Read it and make a comment if dont agree...the worst that can happen is you get banned or told never to spost in that section of the archive again

For me I just read it and cheer on those that agree with my point of view from the sidelines...beats the heck out of carrying a protest sign in the rain.

brittleform (imported) wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:20 pm If I wanted to know about the ridiculous state of politics in this country I would read the paper, or watch the news. We are inundated with this crap all day long. I'm really getting sick of reading about it here. As far as I know, this site wasn't created to be a megaphone for political viewpoints.

Skip the posts then. Nobody forced you to click the link.

I no longer read or participate in them as much as I used to for the reasons you cited.

--LT

i guess some people cannot help themselves ...myself included...as i get older the political stuff just hooks me...i dont know why

The reason we set up a political section was because political posts were popping up all over the archive, so we put it in its own thread. Its at the very bottom of the list.

If you read posts based on what is new you see a lot of political posts, if you page down through the sections you can by pass it all together.

Note, as said above, you don't need to read them, if that is not your interest don't go there. There are sections on this site that I never read, it holds no interest to me one way or the other.

For now the political section will stay. As the whole site is moderated the political section is more so. We keep a close watch on what is posted.

River

In my view, "politics" is a name for the forming of public policies; absent public policies of one form or another, would not societal chaos reign supreme? Is politics, taken as a whole, anything other than the process of the building of human society?

In my view, also, there are profound issues remaining to be usefully resolved in the structure of human society, and, in one way or another, such issue resolution as may occur is inextricably political.

Indeed, castration is a political issue, if one allows that realm of politics includes both divisive and unifying characteristics.

While I have a lifelong sequence of experiences in which my use of words has resulted in my finding myself terribly misunderstood, I cannot fault people, nor anything else, for this seeming predicament.

There appear to me to be serious political issues which underly politicking having seemingly taken on a divisiveness of dastardly intensity.

In the social psychology field of attribution theory, I find this divisiveness to be solely of situational attribution; no one is at fault for it, and situations are incapable of being at fault.

Instead of finding fault or laying blame, I find it far more decently productive to unriddle the brain biology of divisiveness; there, and there alone, do I find a hint of a viable remedy.

In my view, the issues which some folks find so very troubling are quite precisely the issues which most urgently clamor, through the overt and covert actions of actual people, for recognition and resolution.

Therefore, I find politics essential and inescapable. Divisive politics, I have a hunch, is a purely defeating process, one which will eventually eradicate itself through its inherently destructive nature.

What puzzles me a little is whether any human will be alive when divisive politicking finally divides itself from the human condition.

A true story, told so as to protect the innocent:

Two people lived in a frame-construction home. Late one evening, one person made a telephone call. To 911. Gave the address of the frame-construction home to the 911 call center.

The other person, observing the making of the phone call, asked why the call was made. The one who made the call answered, "The house is on fire!"

The other said, "No, its not!"

A testable hypothesis?

Then the other noticed the stink of a house on fire.

A wall cavity fire, the sort that commonly leaves only a pile of ashes.

After the fire department arrived, one of the smoke detectors went off.

The fire department arrived so quickly that the damage to the house was confined to a single wall cavity, and the house remained entirely livable.

Responding to a disaster in a timely manner may greatly reduce damage.

Having the political section may be part of the way people learn to respond to the forming disaster of U.S. politics before there is irreparable damage to the nation.

I guess I may have a severe form of mental defect. I find I am not of the compulsive-obsessive sort, yet I do work with intense effort on what I find worthy of such effort; not because of obsession or compulsion, but because of my sense of plausibly useful results from the effort I make.

Dislike what I write? That is just fine with me; it may not have been intended for you.

However, someone else may find some usefulness therein.

brittleform (imported) wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:20 pm If I wanted to know about the ridiculous state of politics in this country I would read the paper, or watch the news. We are inundated with this crap all day long. I'm really getting sick of reading about it here. As far as I know, this site wasn't created to be a megaphone for political viewpoints.

I follow Caith's advice. When I first signed up on the Forum I was surprised that there was a politics thread. However, I should not have been surprised. Politics can be found everywhere in life

If you want only posts about castration and only about castration, there are Yahoo groups to satisfy you: KLAMP, Erotic Castration, etc. Those are well moderated.