A self is an integral of intentions, that is what gives it voice and salience, and intentions are a claim on the future born out of motives which are necessarily only partly revealed within the complex or conclave of intentions - which may be large or small, broad or narrow, fleeting or stable - it makes little difference. This is to view embodied experiencing on a political model, and what better model can there be since they arise together. But who are these intentions for? Or better, who does this voice speak to or for? What is the people in this analogy? What is the state? An intention is instrumental, it is not persuaded or impressed by another intention. Actually, it is, that's all it does, but not in the way you mean. Again, if politics is theatre, who is the audience?