Road trippin'!

It is great to see new places in the world. It is great to meet new people and have a little solo time in between all the action. It is great to work and play all at the same time. It is great to have increased optimism about the future things in life.

Big things on the horizon.

I'll be taking a long road trip but after that I'll be doing a big edit and prepping for a big live stream event. I am pretty sure all of this will consume all my time for the next couple months straight. I am looking forward to it all and expecting it to be an incredible opportunity and challenge. All kinds of good stuff!

Is there a word for the extreme dislike of politics? Politicism?

There's racism, sexism, ageism, heightism... weightism... clownism? Whatever... there's lots of words describing extreme bias, even hatred, against something. I feel something very deep within me, in a similarly negative way, against the realm of politics. It has twisted the social fabric I experience in life but, more importantly to me, it has corrupted individuals I care about in ways I feel helpless to improve in any significant way. I am one small voice fighting against the resounding thunder of a chorus so loud and resonant it tends to crush and align the individual wills of those who would sympathize themselves with it for long enough. A thought-machine so enticing, it's guise so seemingly trustworthy, it's aim so ostensibly honorable that the subtlety of its invasive nature is almost entirely cloaked and any cracks in its facade quickly become either hidden from sight or ignored altogether. And the pains it invokes in the imaginations of those consumed by it become manifest in all other elements of the lives of the afflicted, intentionally, purposefully, or not. People like my dad become collateral damage in a war(imagined, fabricated or otherwise) generally oblivious to him and others like him. I don't have a plan about how to extract this pervasive beast from his life but I did feel the need to at least describe a little bit about this thing I have been fighting. I would call it by something, if only to potentially give it a target, which is why I think it should be formalized... and, perhaps with a small chances push, by writing this short paragraph in my attempt to describe it in some way I hope that something can change... change and chance are nearly identical in spelling, anyway.