Why Am I Doing This?
So why did I start The Asylum? It really goes back to the night of the 2020 election and the weeks following it. One of my overwhelming feelings at the time was one of helplessness. What could I do? I felt like all I could really do is wait to see what happened. For many things in life you have control, even if you fail at something you can still make the effort to try. With this, it just seemed so big, so beyond my influence that anything I thought about doing seemed useless.
But I still wanted to do something. My wife has suffered a long illness so some of my options are limited. But I do like to write. And I am a web developer.
In December of 2021 I revived an old site of mine, The Corporate Asylum, rebranded it as The Asylum, and started posting. Six months later I started this Substack.
One of the comforting things that I think about is that I’m just a regular dude. I’m married, I have a kid, I like Marvel movies (the older ones), hiking and a good pizza. I was a delivery guy for 17 years. I have never been involved politically. Never even followed politics until Trump got elected (I’m 66). What’s the comforting thing, you ask? I figure there have to be thousands upon thousands of people out there just like me: never involved politically and now mad as hell about what has happened and ready to do whatever they can to help rectify the terrible wrongs we are enduring at the moment. So I think that all of us together, no matter how small our contribution, can help achieve something great.
I think often of a passage at the end of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch:
“…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
Let’s do this, Friends.
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