- 08 Feb 2017 00:17
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This probably could have gone in an ideology thread, maybe; but because I'd like to discuss the concept informally I've chosen Gorkiy.
One can go through life and hear or see a word bandied about and never really, truly understand it. Well that's been the case with myself and realpolitik I kinda think I know what it means, and apparently Kissinger was a master of it but ultimately I'm just guessing.
So instead of going to a search engine and getting a generic answer I was wondering if PoFoers would care to give me their definitions and see what we all come up with..
I always thought realpolitik were behind the scene political machinations. But then it never really added up for me because that would make all the public stuff unrealpolitk. See my dilemma?
One can go through life and hear or see a word bandied about and never really, truly understand it. Well that's been the case with myself and realpolitik I kinda think I know what it means, and apparently Kissinger was a master of it but ultimately I'm just guessing.
So instead of going to a search engine and getting a generic answer I was wondering if PoFoers would care to give me their definitions and see what we all come up with..
I always thought realpolitik were behind the scene political machinations. But then it never really added up for me because that would make all the public stuff unrealpolitk. See my dilemma?
The real problem of humanity is that we have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology - Edward Wilson