A 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.

A 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?".

If 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.

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.