"He wrote what you just said, about the abdication of actual leadership in favour of the image, because the image is going to win in the end. Your question – “How would I write [the book] differently?” I’d really, really focus on that."

It is interesting that after making that statement Coupland never mentions Trudeau or Obama who are prime examples of the "abdication of actual leadership in favour of image".

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