Let me take you on a brain-mind experiment.
Imagine yourself two hundred years in the future.
You are in a room with four people all looking at you.
There is a film projected on a wall, showing a chimpanzee in a hat. The film is on a loop: the chimpanzee keeps lifting its hat and bowing.
Again and again and again.
Someone is singing in the next room, but you can’t quite make out the words. It’s clearly a lament, possibly an Irish folk song or even a sea shanty.
The other people in the room start pointing at you and shouting.
Your hands are shaking as you try to drink the hot liquid – Tea? Coffee? Hot chocolate? - in the cup before you.
Hammers - lots of them. Then a tap, dripping.
A man in a tall hat walks into the room and says “Everything has changed. Do it all again. The deadline has been brought forward. You will not be allowed back.”
Then everything goes dark, and all you can hear is people moving around, stumbling and bumping into things.
Welcome to my world of campaigning.
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