Politics v. Governing

http://www.vice.com/read/make-politics-stop-please

And, that's the difference between governing and politics folks.

The politics is just the mindless babble of stuff that people say and do to/around each other.

Animals have politics.  Don't believe me?

Just watch two cats interacting and you'll eventually see a dynamic unfold in their actions and behaviors.

That's politics.

Governing is a completely different side of the equation.

And that is, actually getting things done.

One is an art based in bullshit and sales.

The other, when done properly, is a science much like medicine.

Everything about the American system of government is about politics.  Much like the English system across the way; it's all the same, except the American version is more brash than the British version.  There's very little room for actual governing and government in this  equation because everybody's got an opinion and nobody is searching for the objective truth about what works, what doesn't work and how well does it actually work.

This, admittedly, is just another opinion, just like science is, admittedly, just another lens for looking at the world around us.

Yet, like science, this lens of governing is the way that we can eliminate the difference between our brain's interpretations of the world around us and what actually is, around us.  I don't think we'll ever really be 100% with the biology that we currently have.  In fact, sometimes it's a good thing that we're a little overly skittish of something, just in case it actually is bad for us, individually an collectively (http://discovermagazine.com/2012/brain/22-interpreter-in-your-head-spins-stories).

But the important thing is that when we know about what is actually there, around us, and how this place actually works, beyond what we'd like and what we'd hope to have happen, we can begin making intelligent decisions about what to do for ourselves individually and collectively.

Not everyone is going to be good at this.

That's part of the diversity of the species that we're currently living with.

But we can memetically make it different, such that everyone can see through this lens of objectivity and science when approaching problems that they face in their personal, professional and public lives.  And, we can practice on it, knowing that we're not going to be 100% good at it, because our perception of the world is never going to be 100%.

Who knows how big the universe actually is, and what's actually out there, given that we can only see, feel, hear, taste, smell and perceive to only n degrees in a potentially infinite space.

But that's the way that, I think, we can begin moving forward and picking ourselves up as we go along.

The world is like a giant body.

And the government acts as the brain.

Regulating and not regulating according to what is best.

When it does a good job at it.

The rest of the body does as well as possible through all difficulties and pains that will (emphasis on will) beset it.

When it does poorly at it.

The rest of the body gets sicker naturally by just standing there and do poorly when faced with the crises that will erupt along the way.  And, eventually, an auto-immune response will kick in and begin attacking the offending areas of the brain/body, at one point or another.

Remember.

It may take awhile.

It may take years.

But the consistent trend throughout time and space is that this, eventually, does happen.

And, you don't need to believe me in order for this to be the case.

Nor did you have to have observed this in the first place.

It just happens.

Welcome to the way that the world works beyond your brain.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-mexico-forests-fall-prey-to-crime-mafias/2011/07/03/gIQAUApL0H_story.html

Think about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=u3r13f137hw