One of the reasons I don’t really care about elections – other than their irrelevance – is that there are only two issues that really matter right now, medium and long term.

Those two are:

1) Climate change and our response (or lack thereof) to it.

2) Access to information and who controls that information.

Since it’s not too likely that we’ll do very much about climate change, I don’t think about it very much.

But it’s still possible that we might fight and win a little bit for control of information, and that’s better than nothing.

That’s why I post long screeds here from time to time about how the internet and routing really work and things like that.

All the other issues hotly debated today – and even most that I complain and quibble about – are very tiny in comparison to those big two. Every other problem (or solution) will stem from the unfolding and ramifications of the paths we take on those two Big Problems.

The rest while I understand that they matter and are worth fighting for, really won’t change the course of history. The two above will.