#polity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #polity, aggregated by home.social.
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Our understanding is conducted solely by means of the word: anyone who falsifies it betrays public society. It is the only tool by which we communicate our wishes and our thoughts; it is our soul’s interpreter: if we lack that, we can no longer hold together; we can no longer know each other. When words deceive us, it breaks all intercourse and loosens the bonds of our polity.
[Nostre intelligence se conduisant par la seule voye de la parolle, celuy qui la faulse, trahit la societé publique. C’est le seul util, par le moyen duquel se communiquent noz volontez & noz pensees : c’est le truchement de nostre ame : s’il nous faut, nous ne nous tenons plus, nous ne nous entreconnoissons plus. S’il nous trompe, il rompt tout nostre commerce, & dissoult toutes les liaisons de nostre police.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Screech (1987)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #communication #deceit #deception #disunity #interrelationship #language #lying #mistrust #polity #prevarication #relationship #society #words
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Republic Day – 26 January
India celebrates Republic Day on 26 January to mark the adoption of the Constitution in 1950. This is when India became a sovereign democratic republic, governed by its own laws and institutions.
Republic Day reminds us that freedom only has meaning when backed by the Constitution, rule of law, and citizen rights.
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#EnliteIAS #RepublicDay #IndianConstitution #GS2 #Polity #UPSC2026
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Justice isn’t a privilege — it’s a right.
#NationalLegalServicesDay reminds us of Article 39A’s promise: free legal aid and equal justice for all.From Lok Adalats to NALSA, India’s legal aid movement bridges law and empathy — making justice truly accessible.
#EnliteIAS #AccessToJustice #GS2 #Polity #LokAdalat #LegalAid #UPSCPrep #UPSC2025
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#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics
#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?
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...that Aristotle called #polity). Rule by one or the few in the...
rulers’ own interest is tyranny or oligarchy (or timocracy), respectively, and anarchic mob rule is democracy, as #Aristotle used that term..."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/aristocracy
"#oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group...
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We Should Be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works
https://insidestory.org.au/the-improvisers/
(Yet) Another analysis of why Australia has not disappeared in a froth of beer fueled cynical lazy mismanagement ... or ... ?
This is an interesting , informative and *informed* "assay " of a book by expat Andrew Low.
Yes, it/they does/do reference the frayed Lucky Country "meme" made prominent by that Don Horne bloke.
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... Australia is not compelled to follow the American lead any more than it is compelled to follow a Chinese lead. ... they are wise words.
Australians may not be good long-term planners, he observes, but they are good improvisers. Being adaptable, Low thinks, is better than being visionary.
Adaptable is what we need to be.
</ quote>Yep :)
Mostly makes good sense to this decaying lump of post sheep meat .
#Auspol #Australia #LuckyCountry
#Hawke #Keating #Conservatism
#Society #Economy #Polity #Voting