The revolt against the management above

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Make a closed fist with your hand. Now press the thumb against the inside of the index finger. Or let it rest at the top. You should watch how you give an invisible cash note to someone. Excellent. Do the Clinton Thumb (or the Obama or Blair or Cameron Thumb). Use this gesture to emphasize a point when speaking. Between firmness and resolution, without arrogance that is implicit in a jabbing finger.

That concludes our first lesson in politics before Donald Trump. Next week: Discipline of the message. Come up with a catch phrase, like “We’re all in this together,” and be prepared to repeat it, regardless of context.

Young readers will no doubt think that I mumbled how robotic and more managed politics was in the recent past. Well, Trawl YouTube, Friends. If nothing else, the rise of Trump has exposed a more widespread fed-up of uniformity and normalization. I wonder if the same revolt is spreading to other fields.

Take my world, the media. Why are podcasts doing so well? Because, in the end, they are messy, elitist, egressive and everything else that moderates the theory of the educated. (In the case of Joe Rogan, perhaps the greatest English-speaking media figure, there can no longer be an English-speaking speech.) The lineal and young professional is now, for millions of us who have been raised on, without limiting in comparison

Trump’s success sends a signal to other finite sectors: There is a reward for deviating from the strict form

Even the world’s favorite sport, so long in the intellectual gray of the micromaniac perfection for the perfect to be detached. Arsenale, gone by one of their hams, are impressive, as the interior of a Swiss watch is impressive. The spacing between players is just so. Free pate and corners are choreographed to ballet standards. Even open Juffu, they knew a sequence of movements allowed to dance to the opposition parties will then be the shooting of the area of ​​the left submitted.

It is the most “football” engineering”, give or take that of Pep’s Manchester City, another team that is easier to admire than love. But both are having disappointing seasons. A slightly released released are close, with a team not obviously better. If the premier league, the era of the above – The act of modern fans – should reside.

Years ago, this column ruled the “Death of the Maverick“. The argument was that in most industries there is so much data about what they work that everyone converges to the same way of doing things. The cantiwriters knew to put a hook in the first 30 seconds to keep the spotify leachers from skipping a track. New-build apartments have the same kitchen-living room. My mistake was to anticipate that people would revolt at some point. How strange politics, which is so often in decline of the trends elsewhere, would go first. Looking at the inaugural speech of Trump, I announced a consolation. His success sends a signal to other finished sectors: There is a reward for narrow form .

I am writing this in Los Angeles, where I once lived. It has no dominant architectural style. It has no obvious center. (“Downtown” is something of a misnomer.) A sleak strip mall might contain a jewel of a restaurant or gallery. To the lack of model, it is more pleasant, it is life, more like the flow of experience, than anything but a rich city-world that I can think of.

After the great fire of London in 1666, various GENIUS submitted the plans to rebuild The place from the first principles. More wanted to bring some Euclidean order to the labyrinth. His designs – full of right angles and other atrocities – have nothing. Otherwise, London would now be a grid or (Christopher Wren’s Idera) Another European square-and-boulevard.

EDU, LA, the capital of London, as the least thought of the big western cities, you will have to change in many ways. Even before his recent trauma, he had problems. In the end, for even, while it has something in the human carbos in uomo against the structure and the regimentation, the appeal of this place can not.

Email Janan at Janan.ganesh@ft.com

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