I have big aspirations in life, but they don't have dollar signs attached to them. I've decided that the whole "career" thing just isn't for me, and that my gifts and talents are best applied to changing the world instead. I'm heavily involved in activism. I find meaning in life by fighting capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and other forms of oppression. I have no intention of being well-adjusted to the sick and destructive system we live in.

Another ambition I have is to constantly expand my intellectual horizons. I have a huge stack of books that I'm currently reading or planning on reading sometime in the future, and I love heady conversations with fellow intellectuals. I know a little about everything and a lot about some things, and I'm always looking to learn more. I thought about pursuing a PhD in philosophy, but I don't want to go into a lengthy program that will take me away from my activist work.

I can be very analytic and scientific-minded, but I also have a spiritual side. I'm well-versed in most of the world's major spiritual/mystical traditions, but I mainly dabble in western traditions like Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Christian mysticism. I love hearing people's spiritual or metaphysical views, even material or non-spiritual cosmologies. I'm not concerned whether you're religious, spiritual, or secular. Just please don't be arrogant and judgmental about it. People of the "true faith," including the faith of scientific materialism, annoy the shit out of me. Have a little humility, for fuck's sake.

I'm a dedicated feminist, but I do occasionally slip up, act out of privilege, and say problematic things. If you catch me doing this, feel free to call me out on it. It's how I learn. I used to suffer from "nice guy syndrome," where I'd complain about how unfair it is that women go for jerks while putting "nice guys" like me in the "friend zone." I've grown up a lot since then, gotten over that victim complex, and realized just how fucked up and misogynistic the "friend zone" is as a concept.

I'm poly-curious, but also have no problem being monogamous for the right person. Staying faithful to one partner has never been an issue for me, but after observing the relationship dynamics of friends who are poly, I'm intrigued by the openness and honesty of poly relationships. I do, however, hope to eventually find a primary partner who really resonates with me on a deep level, whether or not that relationship is exclusive.

My life pretty much revolves around my activist work and radical politics. I spend a great deal of time organizing with my fellow radicals primarily around housing justice. We engage in direct action to stop foreclosures, and we hope to move on to filling empty homes so that no one has to sleep on the streets. All my friends, including my roommates, are either anarchist or Marxist or some other radical leftist tendency. I do have a job on the side that pays the bills, but my full-time calling is revolution.

Pontificating on a wide range of intellectual topics. Reading dense philosophical books.Strumming out a large repertoire of tunes on guitar. Spelling and grammar. Having inappropriate dinner conversations. Dancing. Cuddling. Kissing. Being generous. Introspection. Learning new things.

I almost always wear black. It matches my soul.
Also, my fabulously long rock star hair.

The vast majority of what I read is non-fiction, particularly philosophy, but also including books on politics, economics, history, and science. Favorite philosophers include Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson, Marx, Foucault, Habermas, Dewey, and Merleau-Ponty. Of the fiction I do read, most of it is sci-fi. At some point I intend to pick up where I left off in the Illuminatus! trilogy.

Favorite movies include Baraka, Waking Life, F For Fake, Why We Fight, The 11th Hour, The End of Poverty?, The Black Power Mixtape, If A Tree Falls, and The Corporation. I'm really into documentaries, in case you can't tell. Other favorites include Secret of NIMH, Dr. Strangelove, Groundhog Day, Fight Club, The Matrix, and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

The only TV shows I watch are on Netflix, seeing as how I've canceled my cable bill(honestly, I don't know why I didn't do it sooner). Lately I've been watching a lot of Star Trek. I also like South Park, Futurama, and old Simpsons episodes.

Music-wise, I'm all over the map. A few favorites are Smashing Pumpkins, STS9, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Joe Satriani, The Coup, Shpongle, Infected Mushroom, Johnny Cash, Ani Difranco, Tom Waits, Children of Bodom, and Opeth. Like I said, all over the map.

As far as food, I tend to eat what others around me are eating. For a while I was on my way toward vegetarianism(but I still ate fish). But now I have a roommate who eats meat, and I don't feel strongly enough about it to turn down the stuff he cooks.

Friends
Books
Music
Wine
Weekends
Activism

Anarchism, revolution, radical politics, feminism, intersectionality, process philosophy, emergence, embodied cognition, panpsychism, speculative realism, liberation theology, sociology, social ecology, the end of capitalism, whether humanity is going to survive our self-made ecological crisis, how the police serve the interests of capital and perpetuate white supremacy, what forms of privilege I'm still neglecting, how to ground ethics empirically, and whether the authorities are monitoring my political activities.

Working swing shift. Sometimes partying with my roommates afterward.

I intentionally avoid doing things that are associated with hipsters, even though that's a totally hipster thing to do.

- You prefer heady intellectual conversations over small talk.
- You have radical political tendencies(or aren't scared off by mine).
- You were struck by something I said.
- You recognize me from somewhere else.
- You think we might have fun together.

Don't message me if:
- You're racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.
- You're looking to cheat on your partner(open relationships are fine, but not cheaters).
- You expect a guy to be "successful," and define that in monetary terms(I do make enough money to get by comfortably, but I'm not about to climb the corporate ladder to impress you).
- You're a cop-lover.

I can't say whether I'm looking for something serious or casual, because it entirely depends on how things go. I mean, I'd love to meet my soulmate and fall deeply in love, but I would hate to go on a first date with that kind of expectation in mind. So I prefer to just start off on a casual basis and see where things develop from there. I've left the "new friends" option open so as not to rule out whatever connection might be there, though that's not really my main goal here(this is a dating site, after all).