Kyle Burgoyne

I was watching the Colbert report and Colbert was interviewing an individual and asked him, “Why every part of our lives has politics involved?”  So I got to think about whether or not I think that was true, since in class were had just been discussing ideas about what parts of our live don’t actually have politics involved in them.  I’ve also been thinking about political and/or social change.  I kind of agree with the idea that there is politics in every part of our lives, and I think that correlates with how everything needs to be judged for “what it means” in society.  When it comes to politic change, I feel like the only way to fight for change it to either fight fire with fire or fight it with water.  Fighting fire with fire simply means using the exact same rules and judgments to fight the political and social system around me on those terms.  Fight fire with water would mean to completely separate myself from the grounds and terms of those political and social systems and fight them on my own terms.  So I can either make everything in my life involved with politics and this social judgment system around me or I take separate every part of my life from politics and simple not care how the system judges me.