Fuck AI

Do you feel like the government represents you?

The government represents the government. This is true of any society. Only the strategy differs.

Personally I'm an anarchist (specifically an anarcho-syndicalist). I don't like any governments. I just think some are easier to live under than others. Plutocratic (direct or indirect) governments are among the worst to live under, however.

Have you ever tried to get politically involved? If so, what was your experience?

As a non-citizen, I'm not permitted to join the Party (nor would I really want to, to be fair) and thus I'm not able to get officially involved in politics. For the grassroots side, as a foreign guest I am more careful about what I get involved with because I could very easily be invited to exit. With great alacrity. This would disrupt the pseudo-family life I've built up for myself here and would harm people I genuinely care about.

When I was teaching (2001-2016) I did very carefully insert some material for students to think about into the curriculum. The duller of them would not have spotted it, but the sharper among them did and talked to me about it outside of class. I did not, however, participate in student protests (like the ones that had students knocking down over a kilometre of brick wall over SARS restrictions way back when), nor any other such disruptive activities as such. I worked with more finesse and subtlety than that.