Hannah Arendt was closer to the mark when she wrote about the banality of evil, not its uniqueness.

The biggest idea was that Britain s monarchy serves to connect the country s past to its future in ways that transcend the pettiness and ugliness of quotidian politics.

So again, the notion that a building should just be explicit I think is a false notion, which has reduced architecture into banality.

But perhaps the problem is deeper global corporations, media cartels, and powerful bureaucracies are transforming political parties into organizations whose main task is no longer public service, but the protection of specific clienteles and interests. Politics is becoming a battleground for lobbyists media trivialize serious problems democracy often looks like a virtual game for consumers, rather than a serious business for serious citizens.

And I realized that, you know, Italy is a place where they can accept these different ideologies and deal with diversity and not have the problem, or they can choose to ignore them, but these you don't have warring factions, and I think that maybe the tolerance of the absurdity which has made Italy so innovative and so tolerant.

Tsar Nicholas himself made some home movies and appointed an official Court Cinematographer, although he is purported to have written in 1913 that film was an empty matter...even something harmful...silliness...we should not attribute any significance to such trifles .