On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 9 December 2010 18:31, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Recent things that are "politics for politics sake" and "interesting" and > > "work for a nomic": > > 1. Recent rebellions. > > 2. Lesser list movement (maneuvering into top positions). > > 3. Win by proposal attempts that include bribes/armtwisting. > > They're politics for Agora-the-nomic's sake, not politics for politics > sake, which a pure political nomic would be.
This is a chicken-and-egg thing. ais523 and I debated this a while back: do you accumulate political power in order to win, or do you win in order to accumulate political power?
