Politics & Power Quote by Yahoo Serious

Yahoo Serious delivers this like a shrug, but it’s a loaded shrug: the state has stopped pretending to be a civic project and started behaving like a profit-seeking machine with no adult supervision. Calling government “not a leadership thing” is less policy critique than mood capture. Leadership implies responsibility, narrative, a willingness to be judged on outcomes. “Business” implies transactions, branding, and the quiet assumption that someone, somewhere, is skimming value off the top. Then he spikes it with “running riot,” a phrase that makes bureaucracy sound like a drunk teenager with the car keys - not sinister mastermind, just reckless, loud, and hard to stop once momentum takes over.

The intent isn’t to outline reforms; it’s to justify a citizen’s right to heckle. “I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff” lands deliberately casual, even slightly embarrassed, as if civic engagement has been demoted from noble duty to last-resort heckling when the adults won’t do their jobs. That offhand tone is the point: when politics feels like commerce, public speech becomes the only remaining leverage, even if it’s imperfect, messy, or just “stuff.”

Context matters. Serious is a filmmaker whose persona trades in Australian larrikin humor and outsider energy; he’s not auditioning for statesmanlike gravitas. He’s channeling a late-20th-century/early-21st-century suspicion that public institutions have been captured by managerial logic - spin, contracts, lobbying, privatization - and that the public has been recast as customers. The subtext is bleakly energizing: if governance is a market, democracy survives as noise.