C minus. Hoogerwerf's definition of politics
was: policy, the preparation, the result and
the feedback of the process. Of course Richard
had made P.P.R.F. of that. If there were no
questions, Hoogerwerf had prepared the following:
this week people whose name begins with an A ...
That proved not necessary. Immediately there
was opposition. Lots of questions. Is politics
not about power? He began about the difference
with influence ... interruption: what about
front men, figureheads? The most eloquent
students came up with: the difference between
formal and material (father probably a lawyer?) ...
value-free ... objectivity ... those things ...
was apparently the latest discussion. Richard
knew nothing about it. Neither did Hoogerwerf.
Was a Popper-Wiener Kreis man. Everything had
to be falsifiable and therefore quantifiable.
