- 27 Nov 2020 16:36
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Every art is also a science, and every science is also an art. The practical component of any science is an art. As a way of making sense of the world every form of art is a kind of science.
Therefore, if politics is a science, then it would also be an art.
That being said, science is predominantly an art, and secondarily a science.
Just we can speak of a political science and a political philosophy, so there is an art of politics, indeed politics was first of all an art and only at a much later time was it finally reduced to a science.
In practice modern politics overlaps considerably several arts. Modern politicians appear to be nothing more than professional actors. Acting and oratory are arts. Rhetoric is an art. Trickery and deception are first and foremost an art. Contemporary politics is all theatre and stagecraft which is primarily an art but also a science.
But it appears to me that all politics at the present time are but a sham, and that what used to be called politics (real politics) has been abolished. Allstruggle that is of an overtly political nature, and is covered in the newsmedia, appears to be to be increasingly fake and illusory. It is as if all sides are following the same script, and serving the same master, whether they are conscious of it or not. (It is not necessary for all politicians to be "in on it" in order for the majority of them to be controlled by the same forces, which causes them to appear as if they were all following the same script. The same agenda is being pushed regardless of who is in office. It is exactly as if all political leaders are serving the same master, and are only pretending to oppose one another.)
Economics has superceded politics. The political theatre exists, because it gives the population the illusion of choice and participation, which undermines the will to resist. The people being under the impression that they chose their own leaders, they tend to submit to government tyranny; they are not going to lop their own heads off. Such is the effect of "democracy". But I digress. My point is that politics has been replaced by economics. Modern society is driven by economic forces, not political forces ('cept illusorily). Politics has been dead for a while now. All national policy is determined by economics. Tru,e it is freq. couched in political terms, so as to trick the population into complying with economic policies that are usu. contrary to their own interests. And of all sciences economics is the furthest removed from "art".
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