The political bits also a bit surreal, watching the characters drum on the stage, with the streets filled with protesters. Reminded me of listening to an authoritarian supreme court head talk about ways of thinking about constitutional rights while (unrelated, but chaotic) protests were going on outside the window in the lobby. The events on a stage, or the thoughts from a podium, by their nature, are more carefully presented, less instinctive, and less based in social imitation. Laboratories of the spirit. Holding the nature up to the mirroring.
