I'm reminded of Werner von Braun
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Everyone thinks an apolitical going political will go "their way", but they might go the opposite way, then it's better to them being apolitical than going actively working for the other side, aren't they?
By refusing to help they're already actively working for 'the other side'
By that logic by refusing to help the other side they're already working for you?
It's the Schrodinger's apolitical, both right wing and left wing and it's wave form collapses on side or the other depending on who is observing it!
That they lie to themselves, by human nature, you can't be opinionless on politic since it govern 90% of our live and you will have an opinion on a politic matter soon or later.
Also, the one that claim to be apolitical are usually the first ones that complain when there is a new law that give 'em problems
There are no truly apolitical people, but there are people who were raised with very little politics (feral children) and people with an impaired ability to engage with politics (people with ASPD). They seem very sad.
I meet criteria for ASPD and am very engaged with politics
I'm very glad you've overcome your disability. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/apoliticism-is-a-mental-disability-4ca56ea009b5
I'm curious how You reconcile this perspective with anarcho-antirealism..? Specifically with regards to Your apparent realist view of the law and psychopathology, it seems incongruent to me.
Regardless of how You manage that, however, as an anarchist psychotherapist who (still, currently) meets dx criteria for ASPD (and yet has never been apolitical), I honestly find this kinda problematic.
ASPD isn't a disability- it's a made-up label created to pathologize criminality. Pretty much any anarchist or ADHDer who's been to jail will meet diagnostic criteria for ASPD (and in fact up to 2/3 of prisoners meet the criteria)
Being apolitical, even in the sense that complicit centrists mean it, is arguably much worse than meeting ASPD criteria. Your article has a tone of standing up for the disabled, but ends up further demonizing ASPD imo
I've read and enjoyed 3 or 4 of Your articles on NPD, but I was disappointed not to see a similar approach to / perspective on ASPD. Why the difference?
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Not good.
They could be ignorant and not understand how politics affects pretty much everything.
They could be foolishly cynical and think that "none of it matters", so they just don't pay attention.
They could be like pathologically avoidant and don't want to talk about a potentially disharmonious topic.
They could have shitty views they don't want to talk about.
Not good. Not good people.
there is nothing wrong with being apolitical.
that upsets people who are very political, because those people are different than they are. and they don't like that. political people derive meaning and purpose from political viewpoints and actions. apolitical people don't.
it's not any different than those who believe in God demanding those who don't believe in God must believe in him. it is very hard for someone who cares a lot about a thing, and derives their meaning and purpose in life from that thing, that that thing doesn't matter or exist for someone else.
what it boils down to is 'us vs them'. political people see non political people as 'them' and also see those who don't agree with their politics as 'them'. my dad was very political, but very conservative, is that better than him being apolitical and not voting? i'd have liked him better actually, since he spent most nights at the dinner table talking about how women should not be able to vote and all liberals and non-whites should be shot.
i don't like sports. lots of people who like sports and get very upset that i don't care about sports, often to the point my disinterest is considered a hostile attitude towards them personally.
that's how i feel about political people vs a apolitical people. political people are 'offended' that apolitical people exist and they are offended by me for not being upset that they exist like they are. I'm not apolitical either. But I respect people's choices to be different than me. I choose to vote in all elections, local or national, and spending my free time being 'informed' and frankly, I realize that I am a weirdo. and i don't get upset at people who don't vote like i do, or don't vote at all. i also don't get on my high horse at people for not knowing what i know.
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They're generally well adjusted.
It does not say a good thing about humanity that you need significant personality flaws to care.
Fuck 'em!
Everything is political. Whether they think about it or not.