That wasn’t my core intent, and I’m sorry I angered you by making it look like it was. Honestly I’m a bit of a pop-politics junkie. I also followed the tea party closely, as well as the campaigns of minor candidates like ron paul, because I found it interesting to see how well non-core-party rhetoric would work.
I guess I wanted LW to have a discussion page about it or something because we are a big powerful monkey tribe, and because the stupid ancestral part of my brain respects that, and wants to see what the tribe thinks of my interests. Putting in that little bit about potentially getting involved in the party was going too far, and I’m sorry about that.
Thanks for that, it looks like a great selection. The only one of those I’ve read before is The Prince, and that was a long, long time ago. I definitely need to track all of those down and give my brain a nice warm bath.
I’d read about politics being the mind killer and all that, and that makes my mistakes even more silly in retrospect. I think I wanted my main focus to be on looking at what’s useful/worth discussing about the movements, and whether or not they’re something that knowledge could be gained from. I thought that would be apolitical enough, but then I went and injected politics into it anyway.