Yeah, I tend to agree, though I come down on "everything is political; but not everything needs to be strife".
Like, sports, long considered the go to water cooler talk, have LOADS of politics. From how the players are treated, to who can afford to see a game, to how we treat uninterested or rival fans.
It was in a way to show that banning politics at work could produce paradoxical results.
I personally see only 4 answers:
- nothing is political
- everything is political
- it is political if I say that it is political
- we submit to someone else opinion to answer this question
And you might notice that answer 4 is just 3 in disguise.
My conclusion is that political / non-political is not a useful dichotomy