Damn Politics

 I normally try to stay away from politics if at all possible I really consider myself fairly apolitical. I find philosophy to be more rewarding and more challenging. Furthermore political experts as they call them seem to be very intellectually impaired, independent thinkers in the world of politics seem to be about as common as cannibalistic elves. When you watch people debate politics it seems like they are just routing for a sports team rather than stating and defending a set of beliefs. However the intellectual bankruptcy of political debate is only a half of the reason why I despise politics.

Furthermore politics is about the obtainment of power through force and coercion. No matter how free you think your government is, no matter how benevolent you think they are, they have only one thing backing their authority and that is coercion. They attempt to protect you from yourself by illegalizing a plant called marijuana, if you refuse to obey this they will initiate force upon you. I reject the legitimacy of the state ergo I reject the political system by which it is run.

This is a rather short post as I do not have very much to say I could spread this out by using more example but that is not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is simple.

1. To state my disgust and absolute rejection of the coercive state.
2. To state my rejection of this state's coercive political system.
3. To explain why I am apolitical and why I will not discuss politics.