Politics

it’s funny, sometimes I think I might be interested in getting in to politics, but then I think “so long as I don’t have to talk to people I’m uncomfortable with, and it doesn’t call for me to be charismatic or outgoing, and I don’t want to sit in any boring meetings, or go outside, or spend a bunch of time becoming intimately familiar with the mundane details of a topic I’m not interested in”

that’s all of it, that’s 100% of the job

so I think my actual desire in that sense is “credibility”, like, I want to have well-researched, well-thought out, eloquently put opinions, and I want an audience of influential people to read those opinions and go “hm, yes, that guy knows what’s up”