Mine is? You don't even know me lol. But you know, good for you.

Neck beard, well maybe, I am taking the day off and I haven't shaved, though, I rarely shave anyway.

But if you think I developed these views of the world because of a lack of experience in it, you'd be wrong. I've seen life and death and many many things in between. I've written poetry and cried at sunsets. I've seen good men die and bad men win. I've seen justice too. And injustice. I've lived and struggled and fought and made art and raised a family and written code and built things and suffered and read literature in other tongues and loved and laughed and protested and been tear gassed and done things I regret and done things I've been proud of. I've seen the northern lights from the arctic in winter. I've seen salmon streams so think it looked as if you could cross them on foot. I know words in dying languages and worked to preserve them. You know nothing of me.

You think you can understand me because I yearn for a world that's not based on the transactional need to produce economically useful output. You think you can understand the totality of me because I'd like us to strive for an utopic vision of the world. You think you know me because a science fiction show gives me some hope for us building a better world? You know nothing of me.

But seriously, like, what is your optimal view of the world? What would you have if you were allowed to set policy or chart the course of human events or some other such thing?

Personally, I want to see everyone fed, sheltered, and comfortably able to spend their days doing what they want and not having to churn out crap to justify their right to survive. If you disagree with that, then that's your right, but I would be surprised if you disagreed with that.

I understand you because I can read your posts.

(God, the fedora.)