What’s Politics?! I have to admit that without Gary’s assignment on it, I rarely have considered it for more that 3 minutes before, not to mention writing an essay on it. Now I have a chance to think about it, to talk about it, and to google it as well. I discover that Politics is just like the air, it’s together with you and me anytime anywhere as long as we live in the earth. We can find it during the period of the Cold War, while it also exists in the Olympiad in Vancouver; You can see how politics runs a country, and you can also discover that politics is also essential to keep families peaceful and harmoniously. Actually, politics is the solution of how our world works. It’s the corner stone of the human society
In the Wikipedia, the definition of Politics is as follow: Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. But I incline to give it a simpler meaning: Politics is the basic game rules of human society. Politics is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic and religious institutions. You can even find the prototype of Politics in the ants population which has queen, soldier, worker, and male ants. Their politics is the division of labor in the sake of survival and breeding.
Compared to politics of ants, the Politics of human beings is more complicated, it’s the combination of economy, cultures, science and religion. Decent politics in the history often lead the survival of a tribe, the rise of a nation and so as to the dominance of a civilization. The invention of citizenship and the first stock exchange in the world made the Flying Dutchman built up their maritime supremacy in the 16th century; the British bourgeois revolution in 17th century laid the foundation of the empire on which the sun never sets; the Great French Revolution in the year of 1789 gave Napoleon a step stone to climb to the top of the Europe; the Unification of Prussia with Chancellor Bismarck’s ‘Blood and Iron’ policy pave the way of Deutsche’s dominance in the European Continent since the 19th century; the Meiji Reformation 100 years ago bestowed power and modern technology to the island nation-Japan which has been one of the most developed countries in the last 50 years; the October Revolution and strong Planned Command Economy made the former Soviet Union one of the only two superpower ever existed in the modern world; and the success of the US is the result of the Declaration of Independence issued more that 230 years ago.
Someone may don’t like Politics, the current policy, and the politicians in the central stage. So many conspiracy, selfishness and scandals of some politician reported everyday around the world have dismayed the conscience of people. Some one prefers turning the ass to the notorious politicians and so many failures was to blame because of the stupid policies.
However, in my opinion, politics and policies, with which human beings can organize a community and work out the social contracts for everybody is just tools how we can run the human society. I don’t know whether other guys have ever got down to study the flame for a little while, but I happen to find there’s a common nature or character between flame and politics. Both of them are very useful and can be utilized in a variety of ways to make our life better. In the same time, both of them are very dangerous and can be easily abused, and the consequences will have been disastrous. So we need guardians to ensure that the right politician is to be settled in the right place to adopt a right policy. Then we create the Democracy, the Separation of the Three Powers (executive, legislative and judicial) and so on, to balance the power of politicians with restraint. There are some brave attempts and some of them are fruitful. The administrative organs and civil servants system in Singapore, Hong Kong and some Northern European countries are recognized as good students in the fight against corruption while maintaining the rapid socio-economy development.
In contrast, politicians in some regions are indeed not so welcome and corruption is still quite serious especially in the unstable countries damaged by war and ongoing conflict. The public awareness should be increased and the establishment should take more responsibilities to get rid of the maladministration, though it’s very difficult for the vested interest groups to launch a revolution against themselves.
As we all know, nowadays some international politicians are being described as clowns or evils, and it’s often to see personal attacks against them in the internet, or in chitchat. I wish to say that some political system is to blame for the tragedies generated from their decision. To some extent, the politicians are the very product of an ideological trend and education system of their own societies, and they are just the honest representative to a special establishment or even his country. Most of the politicians are also husbands, fathers, and decent friends to somebody else. If they are not as good as someone, they are definitely no worse than most of the ordinary citizens. And politicians are more likelihood of diligent and intelligent people, holding the essential quality of leadership and courage. They are of course the elites of human.(Although this doesn’t mean that they can abuse their power.)
If you let me list some politicians to talk about, I will think about Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi and George Washington. It just makes me feel profound respect for them.
In the Wikipedia, the definition of Politics is as follow: Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. But I incline to give it a simpler meaning: Politics is the basic game rules of human society. Politics is generally applied to behavior within civil governments, but politics has been observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic and religious institutions. You can even find the prototype of Politics in the ants population which has queen, soldier, worker, and male ants. Their politics is the division of labor in the sake of survival and breeding.
Compared to politics of ants, the Politics of human beings is more complicated, it’s the combination of economy, cultures, science and religion. Decent politics in the history often lead the survival of a tribe, the rise of a nation and so as to the dominance of a civilization. The invention of citizenship and the first stock exchange in the world made the Flying Dutchman built up their maritime supremacy in the 16th century; the British bourgeois revolution in 17th century laid the foundation of the empire on which the sun never sets; the Great French Revolution in the year of 1789 gave Napoleon a step stone to climb to the top of the Europe; the Unification of Prussia with Chancellor Bismarck’s ‘Blood and Iron’ policy pave the way of Deutsche’s dominance in the European Continent since the 19th century; the Meiji Reformation 100 years ago bestowed power and modern technology to the island nation-Japan which has been one of the most developed countries in the last 50 years; the October Revolution and strong Planned Command Economy made the former Soviet Union one of the only two superpower ever existed in the modern world; and the success of the US is the result of the Declaration of Independence issued more that 230 years ago.
Someone may don’t like Politics, the current policy, and the politicians in the central stage. So many conspiracy, selfishness and scandals of some politician reported everyday around the world have dismayed the conscience of people. Some one prefers turning the ass to the notorious politicians and so many failures was to blame because of the stupid policies.
However, in my opinion, politics and policies, with which human beings can organize a community and work out the social contracts for everybody is just tools how we can run the human society. I don’t know whether other guys have ever got down to study the flame for a little while, but I happen to find there’s a common nature or character between flame and politics. Both of them are very useful and can be utilized in a variety of ways to make our life better. In the same time, both of them are very dangerous and can be easily abused, and the consequences will have been disastrous. So we need guardians to ensure that the right politician is to be settled in the right place to adopt a right policy. Then we create the Democracy, the Separation of the Three Powers (executive, legislative and judicial) and so on, to balance the power of politicians with restraint. There are some brave attempts and some of them are fruitful. The administrative organs and civil servants system in Singapore, Hong Kong and some Northern European countries are recognized as good students in the fight against corruption while maintaining the rapid socio-economy development.
In contrast, politicians in some regions are indeed not so welcome and corruption is still quite serious especially in the unstable countries damaged by war and ongoing conflict. The public awareness should be increased and the establishment should take more responsibilities to get rid of the maladministration, though it’s very difficult for the vested interest groups to launch a revolution against themselves.
As we all know, nowadays some international politicians are being described as clowns or evils, and it’s often to see personal attacks against them in the internet, or in chitchat. I wish to say that some political system is to blame for the tragedies generated from their decision. To some extent, the politicians are the very product of an ideological trend and education system of their own societies, and they are just the honest representative to a special establishment or even his country. Most of the politicians are also husbands, fathers, and decent friends to somebody else. If they are not as good as someone, they are definitely no worse than most of the ordinary citizens. And politicians are more likelihood of diligent and intelligent people, holding the essential quality of leadership and courage. They are of course the elites of human.(Although this doesn’t mean that they can abuse their power.)
If you let me list some politicians to talk about, I will think about Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi and George Washington. It just makes me feel profound respect for them.
