It's all politics - a forum post outlining my outlook

it is all politics, like it or not. I'm interested in how humans organise themselves, the way different interests compete and co-operate, and the way "identity" is used to win people over to supporting someone else's self-interest. I think the smart person rejects "politics" in the sense that they realise it's all self-interested, and all this nationalism/religion/ideology crap is just a cover for skilled manipulators. But having said that, my "ideology", if you can call it that, it libertarianism, because it's the recognition of self-interest. Anything else is hypocrisy. Which is maybe not always the worst evil, but that's another question.