"They're claiming that they were that pathetic and are now no longer that pathetic, having been saved by the light of post-Sevarism. Sevarism is just an extremely popular thing to be 'post', if you see what I'm saying. Not actual Sevarism, the Sevarism that's been underground in this country for a decade, backed by multiple wealthy wizards, teaching people to replace their emotions with numbers."
"- to be clear, this situation is not my fault, it's the one I inherited from my predecessor. I've been making steady headway on it since then."