Beauty Isn't What I'm Primarily Interested In

The Acceptance Of Certain Realities Doesn't Preclude Idealism. It Can Lead To Certain Breakthroughs.

That Has Been Another Interesting Discovery: That Basically A City [lagos] Could Recover From A Really Deep, Deep, Deep Pit.

Why I Talked About Political Correctness: The Colonial Is Now Such A Major Taboo That Any Achievement Of The Colonial Period, Or Any Generosity Implied In Colonialism, Is Again Fundamentally Neglected Or Fundamentally Not Recognised. That's Crazy, Because History Is A Series Of Layers, And You Cannot Say, "this Layer I Support And This Layer I Cancel." History Is History And You Cannot Retrospectively Manipulate It.

It Was A Book [george Packer Written On Our Presence In Nigeria] That Was Killed By The Response Of Other People. Which Sounds Quite Cowardly, Perhaps, But It Was The First Manifestation Of What Is Currently A Really Big Issue: How Political Correctness Defines The Limits Of What You Can Do. In That Sense, It Was Super-exciting And Maybe The Most Magical Project We Did, But At The Same Time Fraught With Mixed Feelings.

When Air Conditioning, Escalators, And Advertising Appeared, Shopping Expanded Its Scale, But Also Limited Its Spontaneity. And It Became Much More Predictable, Almost Scientific. What Had Once Been The Most Surprising Became The Most Manipulated.