What Is Politics and Government Really About?

Human political history has a definite arc to it. It ultimately leads towards greater equality, consciousness and less oppression. Of course, it's not perfectly linear. There's always ups and downs. So what is politics and government really about? First and foremost, it's about survival,. And there is no such thing as survival in the abstract, or survival as a universal for everybody. Survival is relative to your identityWhatever you identify as is the thing that needs to be survived. I se people get attached to their collective identity just as much as they do to their individual identity. These things are fused together. People don't understand what an ego is, or what a collective ego is. That's