- 'This article is about an ideology that rejects politics. For other uses, see Centrism (Disambiguation).'
"What is called politics is something so superficial and inhuman that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all."
"Man matures when he stops believing that politics will solve his problems."
"The truly detached man is not a professional and polemic
outsider, nor
conscientious objector, nor
anarchist."
Apoliticism is a non-quadrant ideology whose only defining feature is apathy towards politics.
The character's design and mannerisms are a reference to "I Just Wanna Grill for God's Sake," a meme poking fun at the apolitical tendency of many baby boomers. Other traits derived from the meme include Apoliticism's love of grilling and hatred of 
racism, 
shootings, 
Socialism and the 
KKK 
.
History
Apoliticism doesn't have a history. It has existed ever since the beginning of political thought and some would say even long before that.
Variants
Whiskeyism. This is a subtype in which the love of grilling is replaced by strong alcohol and cigarettes. In this form, Whiskeyism lacks any interest in anything because of which it is minimally interested in politics. In this type of politics, there are two types: power over and power under. And the important thing is that even despite the word apolitical whiskeyism, this is a completely different phenomenon, but they can very easily be connected with each other because they also minimally strive for anything and are not interested in politics. But whiskeyism has beliefs and a worldview, and besides, even apolitical people can sometimes considered conservatives, and whiskeyism is apathetic at a high level and can sometimes be inhumane and cruel.
Beliefs
Apoliticism is apathetic or antipathetic towards all political affiliations, often responding to political discussions by saying: "I just wanna grill for God's sake!". He is completely politically neutral, and only cares about non-political issues like interpersonal relationships, cooking, and sometimes religion.
Personality and Behavior
Apoliticism appears in comics as a generally cynical and dim-witted every-man character. He is based on the archetypal American baby boomer, a middle-class man skeptical of societal progress and burdened by an unhappy marriage. He occupies himself with grilling and responds dismissively to politics or political discussion.
Stylistic Notes
He is the only character to have hair, which appears as loose, coiled strands on the top of his head to represent balding. This style of illustrating hair is derived from Polcompball's predecessor Anarchyball, which depicts 
Anarcho-Capitalism in a similar state of hair loss.
How to Draw
Apoliticism's design is based on the "I just want to grill" meme guy, with coils of hair representing him balding.
- Draw a ball
- Color the ball white (the most neutral color)
- Add several black coil-shaped strands of hair to the top of the ball,
- Draw the eyes,
- (Optional) Give the ball a cooking spatula, and draw a grill with meat on it next to the ball
You are finished!
| Color Name | HEX | RGB | |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | #FFFFFF | rgb(255, 255, 255) | |
| Black | #141414 | rgb(20, 20, 20) | |
| Light Grey | #808080 | rgb(128, 128, 128) | |
| Light Brown | #BA7B56 | rgb(186, 123, 86) | |
Relationships
Grilling Buddies
Radical Apoliticism - Those were some unusual, but still good-tasting steaks at Barbara's last week. What did you make them out of?
I made these steaks out of [insert ideology]. *DUN DUN DUN*
Religious Rejectionism - My religious buddy, who (depending on his faith and what I grill), may or may not come for steaks.
Horseshoe Centrism - Between you and me, I don't see any dang difference between those 
Democrats and 
Republicans either. What do you mean there's no difference between being involved in politics and uninvolved?
Epicureanism - My philosophy. It is better to just live your own life and seek pleasure in simple things (especially grilling) than to get involved in the counterproductive quarreling known as "politics".
Virtue Ethics - My other philosophy. The people asking me to get involved in their petty squabbles are almost never people with their lives in order. Want change? Start with yourselves, people!
Dog - My buddy, always catches ball for me.
Semi-politicial, but tolerable
Centrists - Listen here kids, you make a lot of sense, but I don't want to hear any more of your politics!
Online wife-hater - I like it when you discuss relationships, women, personal experiences, and self-improvement but please stop speaking about politics and I don't care if some of them benefit masculinity. And stop calling me a worm for enjoying grilling.
Ambitious chess addict - You don't care about ideologies but still want to gain political power for selfish reasons, despite all the woes and risks involved.
Rich redpill addict - Extremist, but you, just like above, understand that politics is a circus, and want to get rid of it (to replace it with some strange system). At least you will leave me alone, unlike other political morons. Also you conflict with him too much.
Old-fashioned guy - Another extremist, like the above guy, with a rosy picture of medieval times, but at least you hate all politics in its modern form. I just... don't think politicians were any less meddlesome back then.
Sketchy seller - You are disillusioned with voting and political parties just as much as I am, but you are still too political, radical even. And I think I am a bit too old for all that counter-economics stuff, too.- You are too old for counter-economics until your meat becomes impossible to buy in an ordinary supermarket.
Selfish politics-hater - Also doesn't like ideology, but also just really, really weird. If grilling pleases your ego then you can join me if you want.
Depressed politics-hater - He hates politics and sees it as a circus, but why do you hate life when you can just enjoy grilling?
Semi-political grill improver - This guy has tools to make cooking more efficient, such as a built-in electric grill and cultured meat. But he is sometimes involved in politics as well.
Smart house system - I will prefer to grill by myself.
Political normie - Fellow normie, but explicitly has, or wants, political power. Ruling will distract you from grilling anyway.
Slightly politicial guy - Slightly political, but not annoying. It would be for the best to leave politics to him.
Trader from Chicago - Yeah, politics are irrational, and so is voting and all these crazy conspiracies. But stop talking about economics unless the price of meat goes up.
Homeless artist - Sometimes he stays with me, paints pictures for me as a present and plays football with my family, the only problem is that he talks too much about socialism.
Semi-political flag fan - He's usually politically involved, but he isn't necessarily, and he teaches how to make traditional Stanistani recipes.
Peaceful anarkiddy - He's always nice to me and he agrees that Politics cause unnecessary violence, but I'm not really into all that Anarchism stuff. I'll still probably invite him to my grill.
Political guy with a wall - I also don't care about all that war and foreign involvement, but you're also still political.
Inclusive-ish political guy - Opposition to identity politics? Why not opposition to all politics? Also again, political.
Rich political guy with a helicopter - An extremist, but for some reason he says not to put trust in Politics and Political Parties.
Lazy semi-political king - Supporting you over 
him is political, but it's good to see you stay out of politics simply by not doing anything.
Secularism - Agreed, keep politics out of church. But why are 
some of you so interested in shoving politics into people's religious practices?
Poltards
Any political ideology (especially 
extremists) - I'm not brave enough for politics.
Clinically insane "centrist" - I thought you were cool because you're a centrist, but then you started telling me to pick "half an ideology" or some bullshit, and overall your takes are batshit insane.
My wife - God I hate her so much.- Extreme grill-hater - Why do you hate me? The only thing I do is grill steaks.
- Exactly.
Anomalous grill-hater - And I thought he was crazy...
Political centrist - Centrist, but extremely political. No, I don't care about politics at all. Just leave me alone and stop nagging me to participate in political discourses.
Annoying GOTVer - For the last time, I'm NOT VOTING! GOTV? More like GTFO!
The news - You seem to report of nothing but 
racism, 
shootings, 
socialism and 
KKK nowadays! That's why I watch comedy shows or movies (unless they are political) instead of news right now.- Racial Nationalism,
Black Nationalism & 
White Nationalism - Racism and KKK. - Socialism - No thanks. I just wanna grill, man.
- Illegalism,
Combatocracy & 
Anarcho-Fascism - Mass shootings. 
My stupid racist son that I hate - Another racist who calls us "normies". My son needs to get off 4chan (whatever that is) and become a normal person like me. He has become very hateful, because of politics. Moreover, he made death threats against us, and therefore we must call the 
police on him.
My other dumb woke son that I hate - Another extremist who makes death threats against me and I may need to call the police if necessary. I am against being politically involved. I would rather just enjoy living my life.
Terrorist - At least they have a reason for wanting to kill me.
Karen - Stop calling the cops on me for grilling steaks 1.34643855674764 meters too close to your property!
Political bug addict - Oh come on! I just wanna grill meat for god's sake! Bugs (including bug-based meat substitutes) are not tasty!
Escapist junkie - Quit those drugs, forget about fantasy esoteric and sci-fi transhumanist nonsense, be more realistic, and please go outside and touch some grass.
Loud Italian - "Everything within the state"? Wow, congrats on coming up with the single worst idea ever, buster!
Indiana Jones Nazi - Are you that nutcase that made me stop watching the History Channel at night?
UFO nuke commie - Why are you carrying that weird huge thing? Are you... *Obliterated by nuclear blast* KABOOM! *Gieger counter clicking*- Political Complainer - Will you please stop complaining? It's not my fault your steak is getting cold.
Fox News addict - I hate when that twit keeps talking about the junk they said on Fox News! thanks for grilling with me.
Ultra-patriotic weirdo - Can you not talk about deporting the Neighborstani guy down the street?
Ushanka grandpa - CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA?!?! WARS IN SYRIA?!?! INVASION OF UKRAINE?!?! HOW COULD SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?! I'll still keep grilling like nothing happened.
Pork-hating cube & 
Pork-hating terrorist - ...AND LET'S NOT FORGET ABOUT YOU TWO AS WELL!! BECAUSE OF YOUR WAR CRIMES, I CAN'T EVEN GRILL IN PEACE WITHOUT BEING ACCUSED OF IGNORING THE LIVES OF MILLIONS SOMEWHERE IN MENA, AND PEOPLE WILL KEEP SHOUTING "THE END IS GETTING CLOSER" 24/7!! And the worst of all, both hate when I grill pork. Enough about anxiety and stress, I'll keep grilling like nothing happened, like I said before.
Beef-hating extremist - An annoying fanatic that wanted to force their beliefs on me and worst of all, hates when I grill beef.
Crazy kid and Crazy uncle 
- STOP ARGUING ABOUT WHICH CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE THE RIGHT ONES AND RUINING THANKSGIVING!
- Must be an FBI agent to distract the masses from political activism with your consumerism to conform to their corporate agenda.
- No, he is an agent of the CCP and UN trying to distract red-blooded patriots from their globalist plot to destroy America.
PLEASE WAKE ME FROM THIS NIGHTMARE! YOU TWO ARE NO LONGER INVITED TO THANKSGIVING!
- See, he wants to destroy our American Thanksgiving traditions, AND YOU ARE HELPING HIM!
- No, Thanksgiving is a clerofascist plot by the neo-Puritan Anglophile theocrats to cover up the London-ordered Native American genocide.
- *Screams*
Further Information
Literature
- Any book unrelated to politics, especially those related to grilling.
- The Ultimate Guide to Grilling: How to Grill Just About Everything by Rick Browne
- Political Ignorance is Bliss by Christopher Freiman
Videos
- Why politics make us mean and stupid by John Noonan/TEDx talks
- The Irrationality Of Politics by
Danny Duchamp - Grill Boomer: The Animated Series by SynthCool
Wikipedia
Online Communities
Reddit
4chan
TV Tropes
Gallery
Portraits and Artwork
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