Dear Red States ...

[DanaC]

Mm. I am using organise in a more abstract sense. Perhaps, a better way of putting it would be that politics underpins how our societies/groups/families/races/schools/clubs/governments etc etc, are organised. Politics is the name we give to the stuff we do when we interact as human beings: reciprocity, co-operation, hierarchies, place within the group - all these things are what have evolved into 'politics'. We separate 'politics' from our day to day life because we have in modern culture separated 'home' from 'world'. But politics is just the ultimate expression of the tribal/pack interactions which we (along with other species) have found so profitable.