¶ Politics
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Politics are only appropriate to an economy of scarcity. Within the scarcity context politics play tricks short-of-war by which the successful politicians’ side monopolizes the limited survival supply. Death by want-- i.e., by metabolic inadequacies is much slower than by the sword or gun and causes much more anguish and pain than that of the swift hero’s death. Death by want imposed on many by the successful politicians’ warfaring only with laws and police guns obscures the identity of their executioner from both the politicians and the slow-dying victim. Only if there is an inherent major life support inadequacy aboard our planet and even in the Universe, politics and politicians are valid functions of Universe. If there is a fundamental adequacy of life support aboard our planet which is as-yet popularly unrealized, politicians can go on playing their tricks in seemingly good conscience. But the politicians’ self-deceptive scarcity game playing and the ultimately lethal consequences for many humans inherent in the politicians’ one-sided victories tend to prolong and obscure from social consideration the now dawning scientific awareness of the technical feasibility of universal economic success for all.
