More in a pragmatic vain.... (pun intended)   

People, events and ideas. People are obviously the foundation... 
and the bottom of the food chain.    

It's like time pressure and temperature in chemistry, right?  Man being 
'muscle, hustle brains' as another example.   Necessary, sufficient, conditions. 
Your average three-way.  

 So in the politics  (I've got PAGES of analysis on the definition of that word.)  
The admin, manage develop hits?   Develop is pragmatic environment realization...
 ie: jumping on ops.   From a thousand page suicide note, I pulled the statement 
politics is the control of evolution.   

To me, it'd always been the means of cannibalization, thou I could quote pound and 
he soc schools of jurisprudence  (with charts backing it up) on the evolution of a 
justice system. (dispute resolution. Ask Poland sometime)   

And I can't get the 'evolution, free will, destiny' out of my head right now either.  

Politics?  Lets go with evolution... then cannibalization, then the creation of social realities.   

 Economics as the a (Marxian) ownership + control of the means of production, 
servicing and cannibalization works for me.   Culture (another word I could
 pages into. Entertainment is the operant, thou 'How to get away with it in 
public' ie: 'polite, mannered, acculturated'  is more useful.)   

What does this layer of analysis yield?  

1: sugar score (TV, fast food, instant win addictions) 

 2: cheap thrills (extreme sex, violence and humor. 3 minute lynch-mobs. 
Think of the children smokers, Nazi!) 

3: bullshit.  (ie, 'we will win the war on terror/drugs/flying saucers,  
     epidemics, failing economics, pollution, etc etc etc)     

 cheerful stuff eh? You should see the movies I make. 
(area163 on   http://www.youtube.ca/area163   Lotsa junk there, be careful)    

 next week?   Events and ideas. Maybe.