Revolution against excessive administration

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Make a loose fist with your hand. Now press the thumb on the inner part of the index finger. Or let it settle on top. You should look as if you were giving an invisible banknote to someone. excellent. You are the thumb of Clinton (or Obama’s thumb, Blair or Cameron). Use this gesture to emphasize a point when speaking. It transmits firmness and decision, without arrogance that appears in the tingling finger.

With this, our first lesson in politics ends before Donald Trump. Next week: discipline of the message. Use a routine phrase, such as “we are all in this together”, and prepare to repeat it, regardless of context.

There is no doubt that young readers believe that I emphasize how robotic policy and excessive management were in the recent past. Well, YouTube traction nets, and friends. And if there is nothing else, Trump’s rise has revealed widespread general discontent with monotheism and monotheism. I wonder whether the same revolution is spreading to other areas.

Take my own world, the media. Why do podcasts work well? Because, in the end, they are messengers, oval, militant, and everything else is theoretical broadcast. (In the case of Joe Rogan, who may be the largest of the English -speaking media figure, there can be no big difference between his speech on and outside. .

Trump’s success sends a reference to other sectors subject to excessive management: there are rewards for deviation from the strict form

Even the world’s favorite sport, which has long been in the intellectual fist of the perfect man in the exact management of Pep Guardiola, may have begun to reduce restrictions. Arsenal, who is trained by one of his messengers, is impressive, and within the Swiss watch is impressive. The spacing between the players is. Free kicks and corner kicks are designed according to ballet standards. Even in open play, we fans know that a series of trained moves will reach the ball to the right side, where the opponent’s defenders will flow after that, and at this point the Arsenal striker will be released in the uninterrupted left -wing center.

It is the world’s most engineering football, regardless of the Manchester City team, which is owned by Pep, another team that is easier to like it instead of its love. But both of them have disappointing seasons. Liverpool is a little more free and thrived, with a team that is not clearly better. If they extract the Premier League title, the era of excessive training – the lesion of contemporary fans – must be receded.

Years ago, this column regretted “The death of the defectorThe argument was that in most industries there are a lot of data about what succeeds, so that everyone agrees on the same way to do things. Song authors know putting a hook in the first 30 seconds to prevent Spotify’s listeners from skipping the song. New -building apartments have the same plan as the kitchen hall plan Football has become rigid. An annoying extent, I felt one condolences.

I write this in Los Angeles, where I lived one day. It does not have a dominant architectural style. It has no clear position. (“Downtown” is a wrong name). The gloomy commercial center may have a restaurant or gallery jewel. In its lack of style, it is like life, and is more like a flow of experience, more than any rich city in the world I can think of.

After the Great London fire in 1666, many geniuses made plans to rebuild the place from the first principles. Most of them wanted to bring some of the regional regime to the maze. Their designs – full of existing angles and other atrocities – did not reach anywhere. Otherwise, London would now be a horrific network or (Christopher Rin’s idea) another European square and street.

Well, Los Angeles, the only competitor for London as the least major Western cities, will have to change in many ways. Even before the last shock, she was suffering from problems. In the end, though, as long as something in the human identity contradicts structure and strict system, the attractiveness of this place cannot be afraid.

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