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[Igel]

16. One tool, many uses.

It was once said that any Bible verse could be interpreted in the light of any other--with differing exegesis. In other words, with a bit of hyperbole, you could make a fetish out of any single thing and make everything else revolve around it. This is too narrow a view of things.

To the monomaniacally religious, all things involve religion.

To those anxious for political power, everything is political.

For those obsessed with melanin content or insistent on usually trivial cultural differences, all things involve race and ethnicity.

And to those for whom the only real "value" is money, all things involve money.

There's hyperbole in that. Just a bit.

My mother was doltishly money-focused. If it got her or her "group" $, it was a good (D) policy. If it didn't, it was an (R) policy. She worked hard in various NGOs as long as they were compatible with that idea. Then she ran into a group of people for whom political power and control was the most important thing; they were more numerous, and she soured on all the NGOs she'd been involved with, even one she helped set up.

"Politically immature", they called her. Her attitude didn't follow the "right policies"--immediately translatable in Russian as "politicheski nepravil'no" or, retranslated back in the most common English translation, "politically incorrect". They knew to avoid the wrong words. Same attitude and substance, though.