The underlying theme of all of our documentary-esq work, whether we are behind the camera or in front of it, or just narrating as audio only, is hopefully self development of the individual.

So Niles, why do you occasionally touch on politics? Which is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals.

We realize politics can be dumb, is generally so exhausting, and would instead love to be talking only about higher level things. We also don't want to make all of our work solely about politics and we wish we could just fast forward to a point where politics is sane, stable, and boring, and thus we do not focus on it at all, but democracy requires not only participation, but constant vigilance, and refinement in order for it to continue.

Due to the current political landscape throughout the world and in the United States and things that have been happening our whole life, American democracy is gravely under threat from one of the two main political parties which has through the decades gone from being backwards to insanely backwards and now wants to completely ditch it.

So because we know that democracy is priceless, and we want to make sure it is there for future generations, and because of our level of development, much of which we frankly have yet to really hear anywhere else, know we must do our part to help continue to occasionally but not exclusively share political insights to you the individual, for your own development.

For a well educated voting populace, which is desperately needing to continue being developed, can only continue to happen through the self-development of each individual that takes an active part in it. And we, as hopefully part of that, are unapologetically on team pro-democracy, and highly recommend listening to our essay series on the subject, which is a work in progress, and will continue with these shorter insights.