Thoughts while watching synchronized swimming in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

A group of people will go to impossible lengths, display incredible discipline, endure miserable hardships at great sacrifice, to achieve a shared vision.

An agency trying to invoke the same effects from a group of people through totalitarian control will never achieve a fraction of the results; with their first insurmountable hurdle being people’s natural resistance to authoritarianism.

This is why philosophers and artists are more important than politicians and psychologists if we wish to invoke great change.