The Ides of March carries heavy cultural significance.

I like that video because it makes clear that trauma was the beginning, but the father sadly passing on the tradition of the flat out refusal to address his own emotional needs and those if his son was what started the spiral.

When your jaws open wide
And there's more jaws inside
That's a moray

I thought this was such a fascinating world view. And it's an empowering one where you're not a slave to this abstract thing that's happening to you. You just went off-trail and got lost, and it's possible to travel to a better "realm."

My great-granddad was put in a camp by Vichy, and his then future son-in-law, my granddad, liberated him. I don't know if I have the genetics to ignore this stuff. It's just not in the blood, you know?

Should be easy enough to sort out, right? Do exactly what EM did. In public. Try it out.

I t ' s t o t a l l y i n n o c u o u s .

Next business meeting, sign off with it. Go outside, and start greeting people with it. It's F I N E .