Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
Zephyr TeachoutPeople think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
Zephyr TeachoutI don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.
Zephyr TeachoutWhat I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
Zephyr TeachoutIf those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.
Zephyr TeachoutA lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".
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