I'll go from the bottom this time, as gnostic's longer reply is up top and will take me longer.

I was not joking about friends and acquaintances sometimes telling me I should go into politics. In your case I see it as half joking wink at me. And I appreciate that :)

But as a serious answer:
1 - I'm a foreigner in Poland. It's basically a non starter as I did not consider naturalization. Maybe that will change as more years pass...
2 - More importantly, my character is not actually very well suited to politics. I'm by nature skeptical and contrarian. If I wanted to be a politician: I would certainly not denounce mobbing, but join in. I would not try to point to both sides where they are wrong, but I would choose the most powerful one. And I most certainly would not care about trying to help others understand themselves better, but would just use those readings of others to manipulate them.

Basically I have a large character flaw: I care slightly more about my honor than my reputation - per the definitions I gave somewhere.


Come to think of it, in my corporate work life I play politics all the time. I have to. [Lie! I chose my career. I can quit anytime. Obviously in denial about myself. ;) Repress... repress...] I'm sure to some extent my GOG life is a compensation mechanism of sorts - also for the lack of substantial gaming time for years already, but I digress. What I mean is I have noticed a correlation between the times I choose to be high mindedly provocative here in the forums, and shitty periods at work where I am not very happy with myself.

Thanks for the compliment of sorts though. Assuming I did not misread your intent completely.

See above.

I can add that I went into the hard sciences partially due to a strong desire to understand the world. As I matured I realized the spheres of human action are equally if not more relevant. I have developed interests in history, economy, and psychology accordingly. Sociology I find almost hopeless methodologically, but that can be just my bias.