Because it consists in using your finite time and energy, i.e. you real agency, in thinking and talking about politicians who ultimately do not care about you, and will probably make your life worse based on the self-interested policies they enact. Those who think and talk about politics all day are not in control of their attention, they're just playing propaganda games to convince others so that they may survive better, though in reality it is very dubious whether people benefit from the party they vote for. The thing is that this dynamic can never actually solve the landscape of problems, merely provide a nice temporary distraction for people to feel in control.
Ultimately it is the technological system and its direction for efficiency, homogenization and control which prevail, and of course it would want people to think that politics matters more than the system, the same way that the mind wants to convince itself that it is in control of your life.
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2024-11-30