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What Is Politics?

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"
Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense,"
So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said.
Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now."
The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."
The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep poo."

This is a little story that I think that explain what is really politic.
I think that answer at the question: “What is politics?” is simple if you think about the definition of the word POLITICS: Politics is a process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy. This is the real definition of politics but i think that our politicians don`t think about this definition when they do their work.
I think that politic is something that is in your life always, that lives with you, that help you during your life. It is something that should make a better and simple life… but is it always in this way??
Today politics is fundamental in our life. It help us to respect the laws and to live in a civil country and done civilize…but so, which is the problem? The problem is that people live politics as a distant thing; as a thing that doesn't touch they from near; a thing that don’t belongs to our daily life. There is nothing more wrong. Politics is our life, it is not something outside our life. If we take politics in this superficial way the world will collapses. Thanks to the democracy we can choose ours political and therefore we can’t afford not to think when we take our decisions in this field.
I decided to assemble me on politics in my project of remix culture because I think that it is one of the most important and fundamental things of our life.
In this project I will be a little bit critic because i don't agree at all with the decisions that my country has taken in this field.
But also this is an aspect of the democracy, isn’t it? I think that Italy is becoming a country a little bit superficial and maybe it’s right that we have this kind of Prime Minister but this doesn't brake me to make some satire on him, and I will do this! Sometimes when I see the things that it does or that it also tells during the international meeting, I surprise me that there are still people prepared to vote him. But I repeat, this is the democracy and I accept it, but I try to make to open the eyes to the people of my country making video or writing articles on him and on what he does or what he says. In my work there aren’t almost personal comments because everything that he does doesn't need comments, his actions are explained alone.

So I decided to make a remix between cartoons and politics expecially Italian politics. this to make to see that we often vote characters that seem gone out of the cartoons, that behave in international circle as if they are in a village vacations on the sea. People that don't think seriously about the things that happen in the world but rather people that try to render less dramatic with some bad jokes. So, why we call this thing politics? I think that this is not politics, but therefore… what is politics???



Michela Menghini