I was introduced to some pretty awesome political and social ideologies at a relatively young age; though music. Admittedly... it was political punk rock that did it for me, but it got me involved enough to want to major in Political Science and then go in to law. I've always had the perspective that one would have to REALLY understand the system in order to begin to break it down.

I got a Poli-Sci degree, but I never went to law school (that was an entirely separate and ridiculous story of it's own involving a dog parade with marching band outside of the LSAT testing center) and opted to tour as a guy in a political punk band instead for a few years. What better way to spread my leftist ideals than indoctrination of youth? (I say that with both sarcasm and with a serious tone) Eventually I ended up getting into progressive metal (punk music was relatively easy/ boring to play). After a while, once I was completely worn out with being dirt poor... I stopped playing music. Perhaps I wasn't very good at what I was doing, or perhaps our system seems to have a way of filtering out people like me (record labels, radio time, licensing deals, merchandizing, etc - things I wanted nothing to do with) - and I had to make a choice. I can either continue what I'm doing, continue to be physically unhealthy, continue to lack a significant other in my life, continue to not really have a place to live, continue to have no money and continue to question "what the fuck am I doing this for?" OR I could buy in to the system, just a bit... just enough to sustain myself with; and then once I have the necessities down... try again. The thing is, I am one stubborn son-of-a-bitch.

I'm working on getting all of the necessities down to the point where I am able to generate income with minimal investment of my personal time. I've been re-educating myself in a different field (IT) that I can do remotely.

The flame doesn't "die" in everyone... sometimes it just gets cold before it erupts.