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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
Zephyr Teachout
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Zephyr Teachout
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 24
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Seattle
Washington
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People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
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Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.
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There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.
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Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.
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New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.
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I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.
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What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.
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History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.
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My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.
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Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.
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Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.
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One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.
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