
Do you know what politics is?
When you are studying at school, especially in a democratic welfare state like Finland, you just laugh at the people who are fed with governmental propaganda in other countries. At least, we learn about the unbiased truth! Nooooot quite! π This is something I came to realize in a particular university course.
Throughout the education system before reaching the university we, poor subjects of propaganda, were fed with the overly cute definition of politics: politics is about taking care of common things in the society. Surely, all politicians just want to take care of things and usher the country towards a new era of prosperity. π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£ It sounds ridiculous, but that was the lie I and my fellow students believed in. (more…)