00:00Hamlet as a character, I think, is going through a version of what we all are at the moment.
00:06He's grieving the illusion that the world was a fair place.
00:09You know, that's really what's happening.
00:11He's grieving the loss of his father, yes, but his father represented a certain way of doing things.
00:15Perhaps flawed, but, you know, not as shamelessly unjust, not as brazenly kind of corrupt as the regime that his
00:23kind of uncle sets up.
00:24And so I think we're all grieving this illusion that the world had some semblance of fairness and justice.
00:32You mean because of what's happening in the news?
00:33Because of what's happening in the world, yeah, absolutely.
00:36In what way?
00:36It does feel like the old order is falling apart, doesn't it?
00:38You know, in a world where, you know, you just didn't do certain things, you didn't say certain things,
00:45where people in public office would conduct themselves in a certain way, where there was accountability.
00:51You know, we came off the back of the Second World War, setting up international systems, multilateral organizations.
00:56These things are crumbling.
00:57And so, yes, that's bringing it to the micro-specificity of the news cycle,
01:01but to bring it back to the emotional level, which is where I hope my work kind of operates,
01:05I think we're all feeling a sense of shock and grief and loss, you know, that the world was a
01:11fair place.
01:11And actually, to take the kind of parallels further, just like Hamlet, we're actually being gaslit about it.
01:17We're actually being told that there's nothing wrong, it's business as usual, and how things should be.
01:21A new normal.
01:22Yeah, when we're feeling powerless in the face of it.
01:24And actually, ultimately, Hamlet really realizes, like I think many of us are, that we're complicit in it.
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