22 September

Living in a society where the dominant currency is popularity, in politics and in all things (a society of ‘likes’, of social media), doesn’t mean at all that it’s based on people getting the things they want. Popularity is THE most cruel of all social behaviours. What is popular is a brutal hierarchy of imitative rivalry. Only a tiny few (about 5%) of any group drive the whole game. The ‘influencers’, which includes political leaders.