Politics & Power Quote by Robert Wyatt

Wyatt takes a tired proverb and drags it into the messy room where art and ideology actually live. "Love is blind" lands first as a shrugging confession, then he sharpens it: "My politics has been, too". Coming from a musician whose career sits close to the British left’s long arc of hope, fracture, and reinvention, it reads less like a gotcha and more like a self-indictment delivered with a songwriter’s timing. He’s admitting that allegiance can operate on the same circuitry as romance: selective attention, motivated reasoning, the will to see a better version of the thing you’re attached to.

The pivot to "ideas" and "people" matters. Wyatt collapses the supposed hierarchy where principles are noble and personal attachments are messy. He suggests they’re both intimate, both vulnerable to projection. That’s the subtext: politics is not merely a set of positions but a lived relationship with a story about the world, one that can intoxicate you, disappoint you, or keep you faithful past the point of evidence.

"It’s a very subjective experience" isn’t relativism so much as a warning label. He’s not claiming truth doesn’t exist; he’s confessing that the path by which we arrive at our truths is often emotional, aesthetic, and tribal. The closing line, "I’m loyal to that experience", is the sting. Loyalty here is both virtue and trap: a defense of sincerity and a quiet admission that he might keep choosing the feeling, even when the facts start asking for a breakup.