I'm a biologist working on fishing vessels in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. My goal is to help reform U.S. political culture, which I see as necessarily a bottom-up enterprise. Corrupt parties and ideological overreach have channeled public apathy and private greed to the point that our American tribe is undergoing a conscious devolution. Increasingly we choose entropy and death over adaptation. Let's explore why we continue collectively to make this choice, and how we might collaborate to do better.