POSC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Oligarchy, Totalitarianism, Tyrant
10 Jan 2017
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Politics is different from aesthetics and economics because it does not personally affect him. The (cid:862)e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:863) that politi(cid:272)s has (cid:894)is di(cid:448)ided i(cid:374)to t(cid:449)o (cid:271)(cid:455)(cid:895) is friend and enemy (not foe: politics is divided between friend and enemy. Examples between foe vs. enemy: you and sally are competing for a job and she gets the job - enemy, a foe is someone who tries to impose on your plans and you take it personally. Why portray the enemy as ugly and evil: easier for propaganda temptation there to see someone who is abominable for the ethnic point of view, schmidt says there is nothing wrong with that. Any modern nation states (united kingdom, france, bangladesh) they have common enemies threatened by the same people. It leads to war, and once you go to war it(cid:859)s your goal to disarm the enemy. In some ways he does, in the sense that he worries whether politics as a whole will disappear.
