almost everyone seems to want to omit world leaders, and until very recently celebrities, from the same rules of mind and body that underlie and motivate the rest of humanity.
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i think there's an important sense in which they're not "just people" that this kind of thing points towards. like e.g. a world leader is not just a person, they're also a representative and symbol of a whole country; similarly zuck is also a representative and symbol of FB, etc
when leaders talk in public they don't talk "as themselves," they talk as a representative of the thing they're leading. in an important sense they're playing host to an egregore, and people have feelings and opinions about *that egregore* that accrete to them
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seems you're saying they're only partially people, but they're also symbols and that seems right
symbols on the streets, people in the sheets
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