[jackyinger]

It seems to me you think of politics as being the politics of the sensationalist 24 hour news cycle. Sure, that is a mind killer.

But I encourage you to take a look at politics as a broader thing. Read some academic, foundational political philosophy works. Politics in its broad sense is inescapable. Better to know it and be an active participant than to leave it up to others.

[ACCount37]

You start by allowing "politics as a broader thing", flash forward a year, then you notice that at any given time, at least 20% of the frontpage is occupied by people screeching their throats raw with some incendiary hyper-partisan rhetoric.

The failure mode is rather obvious, and also extremely hard to avoid in practice.

[jackyinger]

You’ll note I never suggested that hackernews was the forum for this.

If that failure mode is inevitable in hackernews culture, what does that say about the quality of the technical & business content?