I'm glad you did what you needed to do for your sanity. It looks great. Thanks for your kind words! There will be many more opportunities to party :)
unfortunately politics is a special interest of mine and it annoys ppl a lot cause they're often intimidated by discourse
though i'm more into infodumping on cold war tactics than debating if minorities deserve rights or not lol
i think another big part of the struggle is just how complicated things have gotten - every domain is blanketed by an overwhelming array of rules, regulations, permits, bureaucracy in general, and it's easily paralyzing if you don't have the capacity to handle it, like enough money to hire departments full of lawyers and other specialists
you're so sweet-- thank you ! i'm really glad you like the piece :] it remains one of my favorites i've ever written