April 23, 2025
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), American film director, The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.117
Has anyone ever described you as brilliant? A demonstrator of mastery of some matter? A source of consolation, in any regard?
Providing consolation is one of the most important skills a politician can acquire, one not to be ignored.
