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Make a loose hand with your hand. Now press the thumb on the inside of the index finger. Or let it rest on top. You should look like you give someone an invisible cash note. Great. Do Clinton’s thumb (either Obama or Blair or Cameron thumb). Use this gesture to emphasize the point when speaking. Transmits firmness and resolution, without arrogance that is implied in the finger.
Concludes our first lesson from politics before Donald Trump. Next week: Message discipline. Come with a phrase, like “We’re all together in this”, and get ready to repeat, regardless of the context.
Young readers no doubt think I have been a robotic and overly managed policy lately. Well, they are drawing YouTube, friends. If nothing else, Trump’s rise exposed to broad public courage with uniform and standardization. I wonder if the same rebellion spreads to other fields.
Take my own world, the media. Why do the subcasts do so well? Because, in the end, they are messy, elliptical, digressive and everything else that emits theory. (In the case of Joe Rogan, perhaps the biggest media figure in the Anglophone world, there can be no big difference between his speech in the air and outside the air.) The narrow professionalism of linear radio is now for the millions of us who are raised on it, without any compared to them.
Even the world’s favorite sports, so long in the intellectual squeeze of the perfectionist Pepa Guardiola, could be loose. Arsenal, who trained one of his apostles, is impressive because the interior of the Swiss watch is impressive. The distance between the players is just the case. Free kicks and corners are choreographed according to ballet standards. Even in the open game, we fans know that the sequence of the tested moves will take the ball to the right flank, where opposition veterans will then be monitored, at what point the diagonal passage will be published by the spare arsenal forward in the underdeveloped Zone of the left center.
It is football in the world the most endangered, give or take PEP -ov your own Manchester City, another team that is easier to admire than to love. But both have a disappointing seasons. A slightly free Liverpool manages, with an obviously better team. If it goes to the Premier League, the era of excessive coach-grocer of modern fans-should withdraw.
A few years ago, this column regretted “The death of Maverick“The argument was that in most industry there is so much information on what works that everyone converges in the same way of work. Hikers know how to put the hook in the first 30 seconds to prevent the Spotify from preventing the song from skipping the song. New apartments have the same kitchen plan. Football became rigid. My mistake was not to predict that people would rebel at some point. How strange is it that politics, which is so often downstream of trends elsewhere, would go first. Looking at Trump’s disturbingly effective inaugural speech, I nurtured one comfort. His success sends a signal to other over -controlled sectors: there are rewards for deviation from a strict shape.
I’m writing this in Los Angeles, where I used to live. There is no dominant architectural style. There is no obvious center. (“Downtown” is something wrong.) The trade market center may contain a jewel of a restaurant or gallery. In the absence of a sample, it is more like life, more like the course of experience, than all except one city of the rich world, which I can remember about.
After the great fire of London in 1666, various geniuses submitted plans for the renovation of the sites from the first principles. Most wanted to bring the Euclid order to the maze. Their designs – full of right angles and other crimes – had nowhere. By the way, London would now be a awful network or (the idea of Christopher Wren) another European setting up Piazza-i-Bulevar.
Well, La, London rival as the least designed from large western cities, will have to change in many ways. Even before the recent trauma, he had problems. In the end, as long as something in the human ID breaks against the structure and regiment, the attraction of this place cannot be reduced.
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