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Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain

Thom Yorke

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Thom Yorke is saying that politicians, who are supposed to guide what happens next, are stuck in a system that doesn’t change or open up easily. Because of this, people turn to artists and musicians for new ideas and perspectives, since their work offers a way to explore possibilities that politics currently cannot.

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