7 June

Public debates and protests are battles of ideas, using humans as troops. Ideas are beings, they’re alive. They enslave us. Education is supposed to free us from that slavery (it rarely does today). I don’t think ideas are ‘ours’, millions of people can share the same idea. They cross generations, they’re eternal. A ‘divided society’ is nothing to do with people, people are just caught in the crossfire of competing ideas. All ideas are dangerous, the most dangerous but also most important things in the world. They’re what society is built from, and so often we’re their puppets, across generations.