This is not a formal intention to run.

What do I believe in? In addition to lowering taxes, I believe in a future in which government and businesses do not compete, but form alliances. With the nearly limitless value of advertising, especially given the success of certain methods of advertising on the Internet, we can form a new deal between capitalism and government that will sustain our economic future and ensure that our military has the funding it needs to be the world's best in science and technology. The deal would train workers whose jobs are due to become obsolete into a new class of workers trained to anticipate and evolve for the future without wasting time attempting to catch up with outsourcing and vertically-integrated companies. We need to think more like a successful but extremely large corporation. The alliance could wonders in the field of international aid, in which government-assisted corporations, advertising, a firm belief in the value of craftsmanship in design, and the lessons we've learned from the Internet over the years could raise enough to make significant contributions to each individual on earth who could benefit from such assistance. I have ideas that could result in sums that could support third-world countries with consistent payments of aid for years or possibly centuries. 

By outlawing firearms, we can save those who would have been killed by an easily-available weapon. By ensuring social justice is not limited to state-wide victories, we can ensure that all Americans maintain their rights and are treated with respect. And by devoting more of the federal budget to social welfare programs, we can keep our working-class able to afford healthcare and possibly college. Because of military strategy, less of the federal budget should be devoted to military operations; instead, we should classify all of our operations and ensure that all military budget information is classified as well.

I'll admit that I believe that outlawing abortion is equivalent to saving lives, partly because a fetus's chance of survival outside the womb can be greatly increased with science--for example, the research on amniotic tanks is so far advanced that I believe that they'll be available within my lifetime. When I chose the Democratic Party, I had assumed that our unity for social justice issues made us the majority, even if we all had different opinions on the state of international politics, religion, and taxes. I became a Republican again when I came up with ideas that would seem to make money come out of nowhere, making it possible for the greatest dreams of both parties to come true: we could have a government that's able to support its people without over-taxation; we could have victories in all the social justice campaigns I've supported over time; and we could save those who cannot save themselves by not allowing fetuses to be aborted.

I am a Republican, a social justice activist, and a citizen with a lot of novel ideas on how to make America and the world safer and more prosperous.

I apologize for not going into more detail. I promise you that my ideas, if enacted by another country before ours, could significantly jeopardize our chances at safety by becoming a new world superpower.

I apologize once more to my friends, who probably find it impossible to have a political or philosophical conversation without my awkwardly pausing, unsure of what to say without giving away information that is classified or probably should be.

Also, I learned from The Big Bang Theory that any of you could secretly be a spy for a country working against American interests. The Recruit's a good movie to watch if you want to learn more about why I don't trust people. Sorry to be so paranoid, but you never know what kind of (spy) bugs a person could be carrying. Like I remember a TV show or movie once saying, any kid playing Risk in his parents' basement could [be the next president or world-saving politician].

I have decided not to run for President.

Thanks for your support.

PSA: My Novel About Special Ops and the CIA [[WARNING: This blog may be tracked by the government.]]

I've been working on a novel about special ops and the CIA. I had planned to apply for a job at the CIA and had trained independently. Some of the book is based on real events, but the story is fiction. It's a different kind of book, and the events that inspired the plot will become part of an alternate-reality game.

The novel is about a program for developing supersoldiers, part of which involves training spiritually as well as mentally and physically. There's a theory that states that the mind subconsciously blocks out and avoids memories that may be traumatizing. Training one's brain to handle different types of trauma, from the physical to facing your fears, can unblock memories that may be traumatizing as well as memories that may be preferentially avoided or given less attention in recall. This can lead to increased awareness and better recall and decision-making. The training is a modification of techniques commonly used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The novel builds on this theory by hypothesizing that one may be able to use this principle to open oneself up to information from the spiritual world as well, increasing the probability of spiritual and paranormal phenomena. This can be achieved through meditation or dream interpretation. In the story, the information is suppressed as part of a plan to keep spiritual and political power within a certain group.

The alternate-reality component invites the reader to become fully immersed in the experience of the book by doing what no novel that I'd seen before had done: creating good luck.

For example, a common symbol, the number 1, signifies first place. As a lot of people use the same symbol over and over again, they "charge" or "bank" that object with more power, and the magic in the symbol grows stronger. This is regardless of whether the symbol had any magical significance to begin with. Other things can be used as symbols, such as people, ideas and events, and it can be done in a secular or spiritual context. I spent years banking magic in symbols that would benefit the reader, like the luck to physically give all that one can give and live to fight another day, created by passing a grueling physical endurance task that serves as the protagonist's boot camp final exam. The novel also teaches readers to create their own symbols and offers a reference map of interconnecting symbols that are more powerful when used together. The game plans to offer an intense first-person shooter where one plays a supersoldier subverting a conspiracy as well as a separate online gaming community and bank for the exchange and creation of magic.

It's my personal opinion that magic may or may not exist, but it's worth dedicating a reasonable time and effort to on the off-chance that it may be real. Because symbols become more powerful the closer they are to the object they represent, creating good luck for the reader meant acting out the events of the story in as real a way as possible. This meant doing a lot of survival training, meditating, facing my fears for hours at a time, and asking people if they were government agents (although I wondered if a secret agent would admit to it even if she were an agent), all the while coming across as imbalanced when people didn't know what I was doing.

At first I was extremely paranoid of telling people about the novel. Many of the ridiculous techniques used to train the soldiers in the novel could be used to train terrorists in a way that would be almost undetectable to someone who didn't know what to look for. I acted and trained independently, and anyone wanting to copy my method for personal reasons might unknowingly inspire terrorism simply by talking or reading about the novel in a public space. I was also afraid that I'd be misunderstood to the point of being put on a terrorist watchlist. I tried to research whether anything similar had been done before, but any relevant tips I found made me look bad out-of-context, especially since they were gathered in an obsessive writer-researcher kind of way, and I had already been warned that by buying a copy of Catcher in the Rye, I looked suspicious.

However, I've reflected on this, and I decided that I didn't want to suppress the information from anyone who might find it useful.

I'm sincerely sorry for the confusion and hurt I caused along the way. I understand if you once considered me your friend but no longer do. I hope that one day things may be different.

Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way even though they didn't understand. I'll always be grateful.