9 May

Following every election is a search for what it means. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s a popularity contest. Popularity has no link to reality at all. When you fly on a plane, you don’t do a quick election to pick the most popular person to be the pilot. The most popular person will almost certainly have never flown a plane. It’s just a way of sorting people into higher and lower positions, in our status hierarchies. A way for social teams to fight for dominance in society.