actually, i would argue that being an artist - be it a writer or a musician - is a more effective means of actualizing real change than being a politician.

the future has to exist beyond a point of representative government.

that's part of what it means to be an anarchist - rejecting the idea of bourgeois government as a giant waste of time.

so, if you thought i had aspirations in politics, you weren't understanding what i was saying.

i would rather be somebody more like ralph nader, who accomplished more in a few years than the entire left has, combined, since.