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All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.
The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.
