第77页 The City from war to military rule, 1941-1958

But is politics really "dirty"? Certainly not. It is not politics which is dirty but, rather, the persons who choose to dirty it are dirty. And what is politics?........The fact is that politics is neither hight nor low, neither magic nor astrology nor alchemy. Nor is it simply a dangerous ground to tread upon. It is not a question of bigoted or parochial nationalism either. It must always approximate the truth of marching events. In short, after all is said and done, politics means your everyday life. It is You, in fact; for your are a political animal as Aristotle long ago declared.

How true it is! This is a section of the speech given by Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi's father. 想起来初中的时候看到的一句话：人心就是江湖，你怎么退出。

当时颇觉有武侠味道但也仅限于此，现在想来其实真的颇有深意。若果真的定义政治为人性人心的斗争，为每一天人的生活，其基本单位为人的话，我喜欢政治倒还真是不为虚假了。

而用这样的视角看很多政治问题，会深厚许多。有很多学者喜欢把政治，尤其是国际关系科学化，像Kenneth Waltz 的结构现实主义，本质上就是把international actors变成一一个个units放在整个国际无政府状态的system中。但其实如果换一个视角，从人的活动本身定义出发，关照历史背景，以一种不断变化的眼光去看待很多国际问题或是政治问题，也许政治会显得有趣有魅力的多。