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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/band/statuses/113007248608872533">anderbill (band@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 04:09:30 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@band" title="band@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/259489-48-20240509171730.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="anderbill" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">anderbill</a></section><article><p>This 1984 Martha Gellhorn paragraph I titled "politics is everything" seems on point these days:</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3555484#notice-6978542">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-23T04:09:30+09:00" title="Friday, 23-Aug-2024 04:09:30 JST">about 3 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@band/113007248608872533" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@band/113007248608872533">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3072209">APAvar: Martha Gellhorn. (1984). White into Black. Granta, 10, Travel Writing, 103.Link: https://archive.org/details/grantalOtravelwr0000unse/page/102/mode/2up People often say, with pride, "I'm not interested in politics." They might as well say, "I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future." Politics is the business of governing and nobody can escape being governed, for better or worse. In the few fortunate societies where voting is free and honest, most people take the weird view that politics is a horse race-- you bet on a winner or loser every so often, if you can bestir yourself; but politics is not a personal concern. Politics is everything--from clean drinking water through the preservation of forests, whales, British Leyland to nuclear weapons and the disposal thereof. If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/007/245/854/023/910/original/37617450c445b455.png" rel="external">https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/007/245/854/023/910/original/37617450c445b455.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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This 1984 Martha Gellhorn paragraph I titled "politics is everything" seems on point these days:
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1. APAvar: Martha Gellhorn. (1984). White into Black. Granta, 10, Travel Writing, 103. Link: https://archive.org/details/grantalOtravelwr0000unse/page/102/mode/2up People often say, with pride, "I'm not interested in politics." They might as well say, "I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future." Politics is the business of governing and nobody can escape being governed, for better or worse. In the few fortunate societies where voting is free and honest, most people take the weird view that politics is a horse race-- you bet on a winner or loser every so often, if you can bestir yourself; but politics is not a personal concern. Politics is everything--from clean drinking water through the preservation of forests, whales, British Leyland to nuclear weapons and the disposal thereof. If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
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