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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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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.
If you dream of becoming an IAS, IPS, or IFS officer, contact us at 07994058393.
#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?
(4/n)
...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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Steven Ozmet's work on the Swiss Reformation helps to make a good deal of sense of why Calvin's Two Kingdoms theology has a weaker distinction than Luther's. (Calvin did learn the hard way the challenges of integrating church and governance, incidentally.)
#ChristianNationalism #TwoKingdoms #Polity #Reformed #Lutheran #Switzerland
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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 -
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.
<edited quote> ::
... 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 -
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.
<edited quote> ::
... 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 -
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.
<edited quote> ::
... 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 -
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.
<edited quote> ::
... 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 -
@vonFriedland Ich denke, das ist Teil des #StakeholderManagement, weil man die #Stakeholder, zu denen eben in einer #Polity auch Mandatsträger gehören, ja selbst auch beobachtet und als Teil des #Politybriefing dokumentiert. Ich stelle mir so eine Akteursbeschreibung wie die Kurzbeschreibung im Autoquartett vor, zu der auch "Highlights" wie Beteiligung an politischen Entscheidungen, Vorteilsnahme, erkennbare Paradigmenwechsel usw. gehören. #Abgeordnetenwatch ist ein guter Ansatz
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#DoPlayRead
DO: #zfs-on-wsl2 @alexhaydock Thankyou!
`$ sudo ./build_wsl_kernel.sh
source ./vars.sh
++ KERNELVER=6.4.12
++ ZFSVER=2.1.12
++ KERNELNAME=mantic-zfs-wsl
PLAY: #civilization6 _I will_ win on #diety level if it takes me 100hrs gameplay over months. The AI is disappointing, Google DeepMind needed
READ: #NealAsher - War Bodies (#polity). Challenging fun romp by Asher through posthuman morality questions in the guise of #IanMBanks #Culture Series but with nastier spikes -
@FranckLeroy Nation states, or just states, as in a political entity, vs. a wealth-derived one?
Keep in mind that a nation is a cultural construct, a state is a political one.
Nation-states are contrasted against empires (multiple nationalities under one polity), city-states (a single municipality or municipal region, several of which still exist), confederations, etc. The term arose in the 18th and 19th centuries as contrasted to highly provincial states in which allegiances were to a local lord, and perhaps a central monarch, but affinity and allegiance to neighbouring polities, even under the same overarching umbrella was at best low. This even extended to entities we now consider as nation states: in the early United States popular sentiment flowed much more to individual states rather than the country as a whole, though about the Civil War as I understand. "Nation-state" was a cosmopolitan viewpoint.
This turned in the 20th century, particularly under the 1st & 2nd World Wars, in which nation-states were constraining concept rather than an expanding one, in which rather than uniting individual polities of a single nation (notably Germany and Italy), the notion of the nation state pitted nations (that is, cultural heritages) against one another.
It seems you're wanting to contrast something else, probably against a plutocracy or corporate state (such as, say, the British East India Company, which once literally governed India as a corporation, or more modern examples of petro-states (KSA, House of Saud, and Saudi Aramco are difficult to disentangle, similar comparisons might be made of mid-20th century banana republics (Dole), kieretsu (Japan) and Chaebol (S. Korea). Liberal democracy, representative democracy, or even a limited constitutional monarchy (UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Thailand, etc.) also come to mind.
Non-nation-states include the United States (its formative construct is its constitution, not, at least nominally, race, heritage, or religion), the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland (famously comprised of French, Italian, German, and Romance nationalities), the Netherlands (Flemish and Walloons), the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), India (Hindu and Muslim religions, both famously an fractiously), Lebanon (Christian and Muslim), just off the top of my head.
That said: If you're arguing that polity is what contrasts to rule-by-wealth, yes, I'm in strong agreement.
https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-the-difference-between-a-nation-and-a-state
#Nation #State #NationState #Polity #LiberalDemocracy #RepresentativeGovernment #Plutocracy #Governance
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Hello, #MastIndia. I am a #mentalist and #magician based in #Bangalore, and the #author of ‘Smart Course in Magic’. In addition to being obsessed with all things #magic and #mystery entertainment, I am a #UX leader and #design researcher. I love #books, #tea, (did I mention Magic?) and of course, discussing most topics under the Sun, especially #communication, #culture, and #polity. Hope to see you around. #introduction
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Approaching my 3rd anniversary of joining @Mastodon, it’s as perfect a time as any for an #introduction. I am an #Indian #mentalist (#mindreader) based in #Bangalore, and the #author of ‘Smart Course in Magic’. In addition to being obsessed with all things #magic and #mystery entertainment, I am a #UX leader and #design researcher. I love #books, #tea, (did I mention Magic?) and of course, deliberating on all things #communication, #culture, and #polity. Thanks! Hope to see you around.