Marginalia
“One of the lines we use is, ‘Slow cooking in a fast food world’,” Denton says, flashing a familiar grin. “It’s an experiment about whether you can have a longer, slower, more measured conversation in a world where we’re used to flick, flick, flick,” he says, swiping an imaginary phone. “It might sound a little grand, but we’re in a fairly toxic time, when offence-taking and offence-making is weaponised. We all have the same weapon now,” he adds, holding up and shaking his real phone. “Everybody’s ‘open carry’ – the world is Texas. And so we are trying to model a more empathetic space. There are still difficult questions but they’re from a place of empathy, not from attack. I’m not trying to win the interview.”