Who You Support Politically Does Not Matter

What is power? Is it the sword wielded by kings, the gavel of judges, or the charisma of leaders who rally crowds to their cause? Or is power something far more elusive, a quiet mostly unspoken force that resides in the nation, in the culture, in the hearts, and in the minds?

You might think politics is where power resides. After all, politicians are the ones who draft laws, allocate resources, and make decisions that affect millions. But let us not be deceived by the spectacle. Politics is but a stage, and power is something far more profound. It lies not in the halls of Congress or the chambers of Parliament but in the people, in the culture they build and the communities they nurture

Something you should know, dear reader… politics are secondary to this actual power, always. I don’t care about your politics or who you do or don’t support necessarily, because there are bigger projects to attend: in culture, in community, and in the shape of our national and corporate organisation.

Reason, the thirteenth and overall skill, is the fulcrum upon which all virtues pivot. To wield Reason properly, one must first cultivate the aspects of Honesty, Analysis, and Perseverance through the moments of Awareness, Morality, Propriety, and Spirit culminating as the twelve skills in virtue. These virtues do not emerge from political debates or partisan slogans but they arise from the very nature of reality, as noumena built-in, with Structural Virtues Theory in mere reflection as attempt to realise it for all.

Consider the Roman Empire at its zenith: its power was not derived from the Senate’s decrees but from loyalty, which bound citizens to a common destiny in shared religious ideas about state and statecraft. What now remains of Old Roma? Their own circuses? Lies pushed in history books? Honestly, some building, the aqueducts, some art, the concrete, and substantial elements of their culture remain. None of these things remaining are political, and all are cultural artefacts. The culture embodies shared ideals that transcended the transient noise of electoral campaigns, as reflection of their internal worlds.

So, when I speak of “actual power,” I refer not to the whims of leaders or the machinations of party. We speak of Logos domain habitation, where reasoned ideas converge to create enduring structures. The political realm, in contrast, is more to reflective of primitive psychomenal activity (Kratos; first domain in Resurrexit theory), “testing things,” though diseased in seeking rather to impose disorder in this realm of rules. This disorder arrives as a slow creeping force that tosses people about to impose change, not order through well reasoned wisdom.

Let us not confuse then, the shadow with the substance. Politics is a shadow, never to eclipse the light of culture. Foundation rests not in political alliances but in the unshakeable pillars of community.

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