Matthew Teeters

Favorite Quote:

"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
- Wendell Berry

About Me:

First of all, I love ideas, love politics, love philosophy, and love humanity. I have a habit of sometimes taking an extreme position in order to push it until it breaks - so I may argue hard on things that I don't necessarily believe, play the devil's advocate and whatnot. I do, however, always return to my first principles - things I do "believe" (meaning "values I am committed to") - first being an intense respect for life, especially the individual human person, and stemming from that, rights to life and self-determination. Politically, my ethics coincide quite a bit with Catholic Social Teaching, with a healthy respect for the personalism of the Catholic Worker movement, and a smattering of Gandhian sympathies - a mix much like the early Green movement.

I consider myself some variety of libertarian socialist and an ecosocialist. I have a fascination with utopian and dystopian novels and history of utopian experiments.