Dreams and rationalities.  Like most artist, I'm a dreamer.

And my artistry is not the superior type, primarily because it cannot be judged, as the final project is never final and it produces public things over a relative long period of time, over periods longer than building single structures.

So as the true dreamer, my objective is within the dream itself and can only become visible over time. Being a dreamer fortunately does not  identify me alone, as all of us are dreamers within this great dream of life itself.

My very occupation is that of creating that dream city, not the one on the hill that politicians prefer to believe in but the one in which we might live, where life might be expressed by our individual and collective souls and sentiments. 

The soul is part of this undefinable essence. On the other hand, rationality is definable and has entity and substance. Politicians, whom I've indicated, too are dreamers but they do not dream of the city on the hill nor of the city that I dream of.  For their city already exists, finding its reality in a process of political intrigue. It is with substance, no place for souls nor for dreamers who claim that  they have souls.

Politicians substitute dreams and souls with another unidentified substance, an invisible individual source of energy, the ego. The ego like any star in the universe seems to have an unending source of energy whose only purpose is to emit energy and light, burning itself out in the long run, but in the case of the politician, the ego emits a sustained rationality.

Therefore, to the politician, he is the only one with the personal substance of rationality. Like soul, like ego, like the dream, these unidentified substances are personal gifts of the politician's nature as well, but inferior are those elements of others that are without the politician's sense of rationality.

Therefore he/she is to be studied in our journey to understanding the reality and rationality of the political mind.

The politician as George Santayana describes him “attributes objective validity to his own sentiments. Therefore the turn of events will hang on circumstances other than official intentions.” This seems to be as true of local politicians as it is of national ones.

Then the question of why politicians run for office is better explained not only in their own egos but in what tends to be “the validity of their own sentiments.”