I would consider myself to not be a political person, that's not to say that I never try to convince people about something that I believe to be true, but I try to stay out of cultural, religious and other sensitive subjects.

Bureaucracy is something else I have spent a considerable amount of effort trying to avoid also, having lived in several different countries and having had to register, open bank accounts, join social and health schemes all in foreign languages, this has often been a stressful and powerless experience.

However, recently I have engaged with this more, seeing it as a game with rules - all be it complex - learnable and masterable rules with a set of clear values, which when followed correctly can result in surprisingly positive results, with surprisingly limited effort.