American Libertine Biography (In Flux)
...college graduate with a Bachelor's in English from U.C. Davis, minor in sociology, I have a strong sense of injustice & believe firmly in speaking out for what is right yet strategically; Politically active yet thoroughly disgusted with the hypercapitalism that blankets the political system turning everyone into brainwashed foot soldiers for the heads of major corporations who have exponentially more power than our president, our Congress, and even the Supreme Court. Don't mistake my tone for disdain, rather I absolutely LOVE America & my love drives me to voice painful criticisms of Western culture--in the hopes we, against the odds, nurture the better angels of our nature to achieve actual results. I've worked steadily since 15 in jobs as diverse as bus boy, tech salesman, call center collector, corporate banking foot soldier, record store slacker, journalist, on-camera anchor, photo tech & many more... yet I'm a firm believer in what Gary Snyder espoused--take the best paying, best fitting job to support oneself through the creative life until the creative life either becomes support or die in relative obscurity blessed with the peace of having always followed the creative vision and with as little compromise as possible--I cringe, hedging my bets-while I greatly admire those Outlaws who we now view as Great Men of History but who were anathema in their own time, I don't have the full-bore madness (nor the bravery) to commit to a life exercising my will purely, absolutely like Nietzsche's "Superman" (ubermensch). Like everyone, I'm trying to outsmart time--Time is relative if we tell ourselves the right stories and thus, I'm a writer. In the final analysis, I'm an obnoxiously average nice guy, but a truly open-minded person who thinks all humans should be judged by WHO they are not WHAT they are NO MATTER WHAT. Racists, bigots, zealots, child predators, and bullies all burn in the hell I would never believe in were it not for these failures of humanity...
