OPINIONISTA: ‘Politics are the public actions of free men, freedom is the privacy of men from public actions’ By Ghaleb Cachalia
Of course, conciliation is not the only option. Other paths are always open. As Crick says, politics is simply when they are conciliated – that solution to the problem of order which chooses conciliation rather than violence and coercion, and chooses it as an effective way by which varying interests can discover that level of compromise best suited to their common interest in survival.
Graft, coercion, and ideologies that tend to totalitarianism, tribal affiliation and more, mitigate against the forces of compromise that are necessary to aggregate the many members of society. Politics requires the simultaneous existence of different groups, different interests and different traditions, within a territorial unit under a common rule. Crick observes, that: “It does not matter how it came to be – by custom, conquest, or geographical circumstance.
I fear we are, as a country, still short of this mark, that was the essence of Aristotelean debate some 300 years BC.
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