The treadmill

As we know, the political game is a theatre where aspiring actors must stand out in some way or they don’t get top bookings. The theatre requires drama from them, but honesty is rarely dramatic. Hence there are essentially two ways to stand out on the political stage – by raw ability or by lying. In some disastrous cases – both. Tony Blair for example.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, lying is the favoured approach for those would-be political actors who happen to be deficient in raw ability. Most of them in other words. Hence the political stage has a powerful tendency to attract narcissist I can do that better than anyone else recruits – the self-centred liars.

Another problem is that honesty is a treadmill of endless caveats and uncertainties where picky people rule and major political actors know it. They have absolutely no interest in treadmills ruled by picky people – that is definitely not why they entered politics.