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.
What if our best romantic decisions come by listening to ‘selfish genes’?
Things you do in life determined by who you decide you want to be
What if most money spent for university degrees is useless?
Is ‘majority rule’ moral even when the majority don’t want freedom?
Tribal hatreds around me mean detour on road to personal peace
Santa Claus at a loss when Rosie comes to tell him her troubles
When voters insist on lies, politicians follow their incentives and lie
There’s pain in many faces I see, as reality doesn’t match dreams
