I’m economically right, culturally unsentimental, and institutionally serious. I don’t want to rule people or liberate them. I want systems that don’t lie, don’t rot, and don’t pretend incentives don’t exist.

I believe markets are real, scarcity is real, and incentives shape behavior whether we acknowledge them or not. I’m skeptical of redistribution framed as moral virtue rather than practical policy. Good intentions don’t override second-order effects, and pretending they do just pushes costs onto someone else later. Economic policy should work, not perform.

Socially, I’m not interested in moral crusades from either direction. I don’t want the state parenting adults, but I also don’t romanticize disorder or pure libertarian abstractions. Rules matter. Enforcement matters. Order is a prerequisite for liberty, not its opposite. When institutions refuse to enforce boundaries, they don’t become humane, they become arbitrary.

I reject nostalgia politics and culture-war cosplay. I don’t believe tradition is sacred just because it’s old, and I don’t believe novelty is virtuous just because it’s new.

I care about legitimacy that comes from competence, not symbolism. Governance by vibes corrodes trust, and compassion without limits turns into cruelty by diffusion.

I’m skeptical of empire, hostile to ideological universalism, and allergic to systems that lie about tradeoffs. I’m not trying to restore the past or save the world.

I’m trying to keep things from breaking while letting adults live like adults. If I had to name it, I’d call myself an institutional or civic realist: market-leaning, socially non-messianic, and focused on systems that actually function.