No longer ''just politics''
Most of my life, I admit I have been notoriously uninterested in all the gossip of the world in the form of lies, scandals and other drama on the political scene. In my early twenties, I remember vividly writing down in my journal during a road trip across the United States that politicians, especially those at the head of a nation, were fundamentally untrustworthy because their status could only be the culmination of opportunism and thirst of power. In other words, the role of president or prime minister naturally selects for those who tend to do this for the ego, under the surface of good intentions, putting the cause at the service of their ego, while people working on the trenches of social messes learn to put their ego at the service of the cause in the form of advocacy. I felt rather disillusioned in politics. As a responsible citizen, I did vote while in Canada, despite being young and generally uninformed. I tried to select a candidate based on their promises rather than the pa
