Confessions of Atlas

[GeneralMacArthur]

About 12 years ago I was a regular in the discussions board for the Election 08 Facebook app and posted a lot of cringey Ron Paul pseudointellectual rebellious tween stuff.  It took almost a month for me to get out of that phase.  I even changed my Facebook political beliefs tag to "Libertarian."

I just wanted to be different, mom

[GeneralMacArthur]

I did a bunch of Sun Tzu stuff when I was younger. I’d lay traps, and wait for armies to fall by my hand. I was a really troubled kid. When I was sixteen, I got picked up for ‘unlawful meditation.’ My attorney was a whimsical dude who went by the name of The Technicolor Kid. He’d look at me like I was some sort of iconic villain or something. I’d try telling him that it was just a run-of-the-mill case, but he’d always say: ‘You’ve got rock star genes kid.’ The judgement reader gave me seven years in the monastery. No luck. No pancakes.

This sounds like a Hunter S. Thompson quote.