His name is Barry Humphries but you may be more familiar with him from his character, Dame Edna, a self-styled international superstar. I’d say he’s hitting pretty close to the genius description because back in the 1950s, he asked cultural questions that others neglected to ask or even consider.
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He was vulnerable to all the sorts of contradictions that every human can be subject to.
Maybe it’s a little about self-belief.
we are bashed by the media who say we should compete with Hollywood.
I tend to shape my life through aesthetic principles rather than economic ones – I’ve never been very good at maths.
You now have to address the fact that we might live in so-called wealthy countries at the expense of people who live in poor countries. Our wealth is maybe dependent on somebody else from the poverty side of the equation, suffering on our behalf.
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