Republic

Hello all,

I am currently on a gap year and will be reading Law at the LSE this Oct. I am heading off to travel the world in a couple of days and won't return until August, so my initial contact here will be very brief. I've not looked around here much yet, but I am excited to find this community and learning as much as I can about all of you.

I studied politics at A Level and found it to be the most revelatory topic I had ever considered. The gap I found myself in between sixth form and University left me with a wonderful opportunity to spend as much time as I wanted studying anything I could think of and I must admit I think I have learnt more in the last 7 months that I could have imagined. Philosophy, Law, Politics, Economics, Jurisprudence, Religion (from an atheists viewpoint) all cross through my mind at least once a day and I cannot wait to get to University and find people to debate/argue with.

A little longer than the usual introduction posts I have read here, but I lacked the time to make it shorter.

Republic.

harryaldridge

Nice to have you aboard. Enjoy your trip.

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Frith

Have a fruitful journey, Republic. Is your name after the French or the Greek? Or maybe some other Republic. Glad to hear you can't wait to get to University. It will prove a hard road no matter what and you will be severely tested and challenged often and come out like a raw horseshoe from a furnace. Then experience will batter you into shape and you will find yourself happy to form some part of some whole, while remaining still a bright original thing. I am taking my analogy from Hopkins' fiercely beautiful poem about the blacksmith Felix Randal.

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Roland

Alright mate.

Just a quick thought for you when studying politics in the education system to always check up on what your taught as fact is not necessarily the truth.

In many respects of subjects such as politics are often indoctrination rather than education.

Republic

Thanks for all the replies, @ Frith - it's acknowledging Plato, my first venture into philosophy.

@ Roland - I picked up on my teachers Labour bias. Thankfully my girlfriend was very much on the Conservative side of things, and I'm edging towards the more Liberal end of the spectrum so issues were battered around quite a bit before and conclusions were reached (in my head). But it's an interesting point you make.

Roland

Just thinking of my own education certainly the version of history I was taught was not quite the true story. One of the biggest lies that has really shaped the world we live in was that fascism was a far right wing white nationalist movement almost th exact opposite to communism .

When you realize it was in fact a Marxist revision movement or in another manor a movement that wanted to up date communism to make it more successful then the world takes a new shape.

We've all been brought up to fear fascism and we've all been brought up to fight it from attacking from the right wing and whats happened is it's been creeping up on us from the left.

Zak64

Welcome to the forum Republic.

I wish a few more people in this country could think for themselves, as you appear to do. Enjoy your gap year.

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david H

Welcome but make sure to read Burke especially "Reflections."