Session 8 - Biasness in Political Cultures

Materialism is coming!
It sounds like a statement straight out of the Game of Thrones. The issue worth pondering about is why have our cultures encouraged materialism at all? Nobody can figure out the damage materialism and individualism will cause. But as a result of this one can conclude that people have become indifferent to the other and more significant norms of the society. What political culture people follow, or the amount of legitimacy that these political cultures bare are questions not thought off at all. They think ignorance is bliss as far as their needs are met. But actually ignorance is not bliss. This creates a problem! The ruling class, in almost all the societies have come up with political systems that favor their own interests, and to top it all off, they always seem legitimate.

People -so grasped and busy in their lives- don't have time to think about the political cultures, and the very few fortunate thinkers who pose questions are part of the minute minority. This minority, in my opinion, can be called beggars. Beggars of a fully legitimate and proper political structure. As it is said, beggars can't be choosers brings me back to the point that these minute minorities are not let question the legitimacy of our political cultures, and if they do question, they are labelled as crazy extremists.

In modern societies, growing moral and cultural diversities have led to many revolutions though. But these revolutions, as claimed by Non Marxist theorists, are "more as a transformation of the political system rather than as a transformation of the social systems". This illustrates that growing diversities are used only as mediums to gain political strength, rather than to bring a change in the basis of these political cultures which have promoted the concept of materialism to the utmost.