I don’t have any interest in starting a political movement. I just want to live life and be left alone as long as I’m peaceful with others. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. If you’re interested in doing the same — and if you want to do it without the shrill and angry confrontations of politics — I hope you’ll join me in a conversation that might lead to better lives for all of us.
My own political evolution is a long and twisting story. I grew up in a generally conservative household, but I was taught to be a political independent. I also learned — from school and from my own reading — to be an intensely patriotic kid. I believed in our political leaders. I believed in the political system. I believed in the morality of this country’s role in the world.
Is this what happens when you teach children there are no absolutes?
We build our own prison walls, and breaking free starts in heart
Every addiction is heart’s effort to fill inner hole that requires love
Seasteading is a crazy idea, but could it be crazy idea that works?
After long but necessary detours, the beginning finally nears for me
People who invoke ‘fairness’ generally just mean, ‘Do things my way — or else’
We find meaning in responsibility, not in pursuit of empty pleasures
What if other people see you or hear you differently than you do?
Why does most love hurt us? Because one usually loves more