And at the same time, I’m working on my own new mini-comic, where I decided to let myself loose and wrote a lot of text.

The events in the comic unfold a bit too quickly, and there aren’t that many explanations or reflections - and I would have liked to see more of those! It didn’t turn out to be BRZRKR, of course, but it’s somewhere in that vicinity.

For example, “I liked this thing, so I did this and that.” And why we liked something in the first place doesn’t seem particularly important.

because they clearly follow from the initial premises.

In everyday life, this can show up as a spontaneous liking for someone or something. Our preferences may have no real reason (at least if we don’t dive too far into psychoanalysis).

Seems I have some bad day today. There’s a fragment where I want to add one more paragraph, but it just wouldn’t come together. I spent about 3 hours thinking what I could add, and in the end came up with nothing. We’ll see - maybe the right idea will come to me on another day.

Now all that’s left is the easy part - finishing the script, completing the storyboard, and drawing everything 😅

Nevertheless, if we try to transfer Aristotle’s worldview to our time and start getting to know and communicating with the people who live nearby, that would already count as politics. After all, politics begins with how you negotiate the terms of living alongside your neighbors.

Today, thousands of people can live in the same building and barely know each other. For example, over the past year I’ve run into my neighbors on the same floor maybe 5-10 times. And social contacts like random conversations on the street, in a store or on the internet can hardly be called politics

How could it be otherwise when your circle of acquaintances includes the head of state and, surely, other influential figures? Besides, living in that era, you definitely knew who your neighbors were and interacted with them one way or another.

Given Aristotle’s status and the weight of his personality, this was genuinely true for him. I’m sure that any conversation with him influenced people and their destinies.