"Today you will be with me in paradise." This is the mentality that got that dude Jesus Killed, when you tell those human call thieves they're innocent and can access where so called saints cannot? 😂👉Then you die.

Artists possess heightened sensitivity that allows them to perceive things others don't, but that same sensitivity may make them ill-suited to exercise political power in a democracy.

When I say that artists should never be given the powers of government at this stage of human evolution, I'm often misunderstood by the presumptuous. But if people sat down and really thought about what I'm saying, they might understand my position.

First, when I say "artists," I mean real artists. I'm not talking about manufactured celebrities or boy bands. That said, I don't dismiss anyone simply because they came to prominence through a boy band or some commercial vehicle. People arrive at their calling by different routes. Just because someone started in a boy band doesn't mean they have no talent or aren't working with spirit. It doesn't mean they aren't tuned to certain frequencies.

I think human beings are tuned to different frequencies, much like tuning a radio. If you're not tuned to a particular frequency, you're simply not going to receive what's there. I believe this has something to do with human evolution—something we haven't fully understood or pinpointed yet.

Coming back to my main point, real artists are, in my opinion, highly sensitive beings. Extremely sensitive. That's one of the reasons they become artists in the first place. They perceive things that many other people cannot perceive. Society values artists because they translate those perceptions into music, painting, sculpture, literature, film, or whatever medium they work in. The artist performs a collective service by giving form to things the rest of us struggle to articulate.

Without sounding as though I suffer from delusions of grandeur—especially since I consider myself an artist—I believe I'm qualified to speak on this. When you're highly sensitive and have access to certain levels of consciousness, the decisions you arrive at won't necessarily appeal to the majority. In fact, they're often least popular in the short term. They may appear draconian, authoritarian, or even despotic.

But think of medicine. The treatment that heals you isn't always sweet, pleasant, or easy to swallow. Sometimes it's the bitter medicine that works. That's the perspective from which I'm speaking.

Take Jesus, for example. I often say Jesus was an artist as well. If that statement doesn't make sense to you, then perhaps you're not yet following the framework I'm using.

Consider the Sermon on the Mount. What was it? It was, in many ways, a performance. A gathering. A speaker addressing a crowd. Today we'd call it a live event. A minister speaking to his flock isn't fundamentally different from a performer holding an audience. You cannot be an effective preacher without possessing some degree of artistic ability. If all you do is monotonously recite scripture, people will stop listening. To hold the attention of thousands requires exceptional communication and performance skills. Judging by the accounts, Jesus clearly possessed those abilities.

Then consider the crucifixion. According to the story, there were thieves crucified alongside him. One challenged him, asking that if he truly was the Son of God, he should save them all.

Personally, if I were in that position, I might have replied, "You're thieves. You deserve your punishment. I'm ready to leave this world." But that's not what Jesus said.

Instead, he told one of them, "Today you will be with me in paradise."

From my perspective, that suggests Jesus had access to information that ordinary people—or the establishment—did not. Whether you interpret the story literally or metaphorically doesn't change the point. If he could confidently tell someone condemned as a criminal that they would be with him in paradise, perhaps he saw something others couldn't. Perhaps the man wasn't what society believed him to be.

Now imagine something similar happening today. Suppose a head of state pardoned someone the public regarded as an irredeemable criminal. The public would likely be outraged. They might even call for that leader's removal or worse. Yet it's entirely possible that the leader has access to intelligence, evidence, or information the public doesn't have.

History repeatedly reminds us that societies often turn against leaders they later come to recognise as having meant well.

The same principle appears in the stories about Jesus. He welcomed prostitutes, tax collectors, and those society rejected. He looked beyond labels.

There's another account in which a woman touches Jesus, and he says, "Who touched me? Your faith has healed you. I felt power leave my body."

What kind of person are we talking about? Or, if you see these stories as symbolic, what kind of metaphor is being presented? Either way, the point is that the narrative describes someone operating with a level of perception beyond ordinary understanding.

That's ultimately the point I'm making. Artists—and figures like Jesus, if we understand them through this lens—operate from heightened sensitivity. That sensitivity is precisely what makes them valuable as artists. But it may also make them unsuited to governing societies, because the insights available to them can lead them to make decisions that the majority neither understands nor accepts in the moment. Great art often asks us to see beyond the obvious. Government, however, depends on public legitimacy. Those are not always compatible roles.