Re:The Rooms Where It Happened
by ridaj on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:33PM
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I love how the era of Zoom lawmaking has killed decorum for so many of these state public functions. The pompous elected officials now have to connect from what often look like very pedestrian suburban homes, with either bare walls or run-of-the-mill family pics on them, bad lighting, cameras too close to them and too high or too low... They no longer project the institutional authority of big, carpeted, wainscoted, pillared halls of power, and it's just as well: I like that they should think of themselves as mere managers of public administration, not historical figures destined to leave grandiose legacies...
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Our leaders are no better than us, the entire concept of "nobility" and its resulting pomp and circumstance is the product of selfishness, artifice, and imagination stretched out over millenia. I rather like seeing that the emperors have no clothes
Re:The Rooms Where It Happened
by WalterBright on Sunday August 15, 2021 @10:29PM
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Amusing is the inevitable bookshelf in the background, with a carefully curated selection of books designed to impress the viewer. Has the person even read any of them?