Why do certain people think "everything is political" and that we need to insert politics in everything?

[Iwasamwillbe]

Take for example, this Los Angeles Times article, complaining about Ricky Gervais calling out the out-of-touch pedophiles in Hollywood for their shallow politics, calling him a "nihilist" and "cynic", who has "reprimand [Hollywood] for having hope".

Of course, such idiotic smears of are usually thrown at anyone who questions the necessity of inserting politics into art and media, especially if the politics are of an "approved" form. The smears can take different forms, but they ultimately have the same underlying message: "art, literature, cinema, science, everything is politics, and to deny this shows a lack of understanding about the world".

So, I ask: why do so many people believe that everything is political, and that it is not only good, but necessary to insert politics (especially of an "approved" sort) into any medium?

 

[SweetDee]

because people have gone insane

 

[Revo]

There is already a thread dedicated to this theme of no politics .

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/tired-of-politics.64418/

 

[???]

Uncle Ted talks about this in his article on the Washington Post.

Basically some people have no way to directly influence the world around them - Ted calls this "participating in the power process" - so they live vicariously though IRL video games AKA politics. They identify strongly with a group and work for that groups supposed goals, experiencing achievement of said goals as a simulacrum of real life achievement.

One problem though: fake achievement doesn't have the same real benefits or emotional sense of fulfillment. My life still sucks; I just fooled myself for a short time into believing otherwise. Thus I need to keep doing it - and doing it more often and in a more extreme manner - to get the same high.

So if I'm an underemployed loser who needs to kiss everyone's ass to survive, I cope by identifying with far-left political organizations and spend my free time improving my life and achieving financial independence getting people fired for petty BS.

tl;dr

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[He Who Points And Laughs]

That's the left.

 

[Syaoran Li]

The kind of people who insist on "everything is political" are the kind of people who tend to be smug pretentious assholes that try to justify themselves by attaching importance to otherwise unimportant things.

There's a reason why entertainment and pop culture has been hit the hardest by hyper-politicization in the 2010's.

 

[crocodilian]

"Everything is political" is code for "everything can be ruined by, and a made a vessel for, politics."

Much like how "social justice" is more adequately described as the promotion of injustices based on social aspects you have no personal control over, it's an ironic battlecry that follows the standard playbook described by Orwell in his manual of authoritarian platitudes, 1984.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

It's a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist thing, everything is political as the ideal communist must force equality and smash the imperialist-capitalist-bourgeois power structure and allow La Tisha, Jonvaqious, Juana and Pedro to participate, have hope an usher in the age of the Communist Man/Woman/Troon. It materialized during Obongo's run and presidency because as a black mulatto that came out of nowhere with no experience he hit all the right squares on the communist liberal bingo card and made everyone feel like they accomplished something.

Of course, as Gervais pointed out, these celebrities barely finished high school and are dumber than a sack of rocks so they're merely parroting what someone else told them.

 

[Otterly]

If you say everything is political and nothing is outside that, then you mean that everything is to be judged by you and sorted into a good pile and a bad pile. In effect, it gives you a licence to judge and comment and control everything
It’s a very simplistic and controlling way of looking at the world, but the past decade has made me think that there is a significant tranche of the population who cannot think of anything with any nuance at all and require everything to be divvied up nearly into a good pile and a bad pile. Some of those people blindly follow what they are told is good and bad and others do the deciding.
Doubt is not allowed. Talking to non believers is not allowed. The idea of differing opinions is not allowed. Changing your mind is not allowed. All these things happen in cults and fundamentalist strands of religion.
Most particularly humour is not allowed, because humour mocks and weakens the authoritarian stance. It introduces the idea of absurdity, which is anathema to fundamentalist thought. When you run across an ideology that attacks humour, you know you have a cult on your hands. It might be a religious one or it might be SJWs, but disallowing doubt, humour, or dissent is cultibehaviour.
KF is hated because of this. We laugh at people. We are an existential threat to cultivate behaviour of all types.
So keep laughing, my fellow kiwis - we are the thin green line protecting civilisation. Or just a bunch of autists. Or both.

edited for spelling because my autocorrect is one of the above cultists

 

[Sperghetti]

I think at least part of the reason is because a lot of people feel that doing so somehow makes those things deep and profound, and thus, makes them intellectuals for partaking in them. Books and stories having underlying moral themes is nothing new, but I think this recent push is because a lot of people feel that they just can't enjoy something like a silly sci-fi action flick for what it is. It has to be a political allegory so it can be a smart activity for smart people.

You kind of see something similar if you get into the fine art scene: Many people who consider themselves artists will scoff at or look down on things that are made only to be asthetically pleasing, no matter how technically well-rendered they are. On the other hand, if something comes with some sort of wordy artist statement about how the work is an illustration of Overdone Social Issue #47, then it can be taken seriously.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Everything is political is just code word to hate thing that are liked by most people because of the creator's politics and vice versa for loving things that are hated by everyone.
You can argue it's good for shitty entertainment empires as the quality of their work isn't as important as them making a token effort.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I think at least part of the reason is because a lot of people feel that doing so somehow makes those things deep and profound, and thus, makes them intellectuals for partaking in them. Books and stories having underlying moral themes is nothing new, but I think this recent push is because a lot of people feel that they just can't enjoy something like a silly sci-fi action flick for what it is. It has to be a political allegory so it can be a smart activity for smart people.

You kind of see something similar if you get into the fine art scene: Many people who consider themselves artists will scoff at or look down on things that are made only to be asthetically pleasing, no matter how technically well-rendered they are. On the other hand, if something comes with some sort of wordy artist statement about how the work is an illustration of Overdone Social Issue #47, then it can be taken seriously.

You got the right idea, but you have cause and effect reversed.

There is an entire political apparatus built on convincing people that they're smart and enlightened for following in the lockstep of their political convictions. That's how you get people laughing at Colbert's show when he just says "Trump", or cheer for the firing of Comey, after which the "comedian" then tells you, the audience no, that's wrong, that's bad.

Whether it's the big bang theory, or sheldon, or good will hunting or any of the modern sherlock holmes iterations. It's there to tell you: to think like this is being a smart, to think like this is being dumb. It's a very patronizing and frankly, dumb idea. Except that is lapped up by millions.

And what does it do to a person to believe they're smart for adopting a small set of ideas and then mostly follow the lead of "experts"? They laugh at anyone that has questions about climate change, transexuality, mass migration. Ha ha, look at that dumb person asking questions. It's settled science. 97% of scientists agree. They'll parrot things that are complete spin, created by spin doctors.

The result of that whole push for "le smart person", is that being "smart" has become a part of a considerable amount of people's identity.

But considering this whole thing is rather artificial and forced, there is some part of them that rebels against it and is happy to be free once they get past it. For a time, smart movies for smart people can be very re-assuring. There is only so much subversion you can do until you don't have a building left anymore. Game of Thrones is a perfect example of that. Subverted every trope until the writer didn't know where to go with the story anymore and the seriesmakers accepted that it was a dead-end and filmed as quickly as possible. There was no salvaging it, because when you subvert everything, there is no structure left.

 

[Strine]

Bourgeois pseudo-Marxism, in which all artistic things must have a moral, and the moral must always be about social power. Nothing can simply be beautiful to these people; all aesthetic things must be morally comforting to them, because they have a juvenile conscience that struggles to define itself against evil.

One day, they'll tattoo PROTECT TRANS KIDS on the wings of butterflies.

 

[linchan]

People say that to put more unwarranted weight to things said. It literally means nothing if everything is political

 

[Where Do You Find Them?]

It's simple, it's obsession and the justification thereof. The first thing to understand is that this idea didn't originally come from woke twitter addicted idiots. It came from woke academic idiots. Specifically those in political science/philosophy. Now for these people to be a bit obsessed isn't so bad. It's their job, the problem is that the justification for that obsession seems so reasonable on the surface.

Politics is a big thing and almost everything is connected to it in some way. If you point to a thing, it's not hard to come up with some way that that thing is political. If you're a mongoloid this seems like some amazing revelation and if you're obsessed with politics it seems like a wonderful justification.

In reality, there are lots of things that are big enough to be related to absolutely everything. If you want to shut someone who tries to make everything political, tell them that everything that happens happens according to the laws of physics but it's still retarded to bring that up in a discussion about what we're going to have for dinner.

 

[Give Her The D]

Because the woke Twitter/Tumblr leftists want it to be, and pretty much are succeeding at this point.

Hell, they've made fucking anime political now. Have you seen Funimation changing scripts to mention shit about the patriarchy and whatnot? Leftism is a cancer and needs to go the fuck away, right fucking now.

 

[Hux]

Because the people that religiously insist this generally lead very boring, bleak, meaningless lives so they turn to politics to make everything more epic to them than it actually is to overcompensate the fact there's really nothing special about them. This also fills them with an ego-inflating false sense of intelligence and "being in the know", thus they think it gives them Cart Blanche to look down on the people around them for not being as special as they themselves are

 

[Rice Is Ready]

Just yesterday I saw a picture of some animals that avoided being burned in the Australian fires and this boomer in the comment section was like:

"This is not from climate change "

Nobody implied it was in the caption or comments. These people think about "muh leftists" or "muh nazis" 24/7.

 

[Lurkio]

I think it's less that "why do we need to insert politics into everything" and more of; people taking a persons political views way to seriously and judging them solely on that, combined with people thinking that labeling yourself as belonging to a political party means you have to subscribe to all their ideals down to the letter.

Power-leveling a bit here, but though I'm right leaning, I do agree with the left on certain view points and opinions. But people now-a-days don't see it like that. If you're a Democrat you're automatically assumed to be an illegal immigrant loving, proper pronoun using, pot smoker who wants everything in this country to be free, and if you're a Republican you're labeled as a borderline racist, bible thumping, redneck who's stuck in their ways.

It use to be a persons political leanings only gave a slight idea about them and the actual person had beliefs, opinions, and ideals that were as varied as anyone else, and while there are still many people like that, social media and news outlets have encouraged people to stick the barest parts of your parties stereotypes and if you deviate even slightly from them you're immediately lumped in with the opposition, who are anti-American/ whatever country you live in and will drive everything into the ground...or so they try to preach to everyone.

I mean, I do understand the issue, there are a lot of things out there that have Political view points shoved in there, but from I've seen the issue tends to be more that they're mostly done poorly or focus more on attacking people who have a different view point rather then trying to get people to see their side, if only for a bit.

The irony is that we live in one of the most tolerant times in human history, yet at the same time, people have been less tolerant then they've ever been in recent history.

 

[OneEyedCool]

It's just the gov't intentionally programming the peons in prep for the upcoming Civil War, and if everybody would just stop watching the TVs subliminally telling them to think this way, we'd have real discussions going.