Renan Santos: The role of the political class should be as simple and idiot-proof as possible, which is basically to look at what worked and replicate it. That's it. But we don't do that, man. And that's devastating.
Renan Santos: That's the most distressing thing, but then there's political struggle, there's a chess game, imagine it like this, once again I'll pick it up and do this...
From the point of view of technological innovation, people have to solve theorems, equations and colossal difficulties. And they organize and solve them. The function of the politician, well, is to solve their own theorems and problems in their area. Which is an area that involves relations of power.
Renan Santos: We have to understand the system of power relations and shape it into the form we need to give it.
Renan Santos: That's it.