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You were quoted in an earlier interview saying, “My themes will always be an act of protest until there is nothing left to protest against.” Do you honestly think that day will ever come?
Not in my lifetime, no. Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? That movie struck really true to me and I actually draw a lot of inspiration from predictive literature, like 1984. I feel like those kinds of things are coming true and it’s scary to me. People are getting more apathetic and letting our government get away with murder. I don’t know, unless there are major changes and major uprisings, there isn’t going to be any difference.

What do you think is the greatest lesson history can teach us?
My use of the buffalo and the bombers from World War II are kind of what started all of this. Near annihilation of the buffalo and also Native Americans is representative — we pushed both species to near extinction, massacred them, and essentially tried to wipe them out. We should have learned from that. Then there was WWII — a crazy war ending with nuclear bombs, massacres, and genocide. It’s terrible. That war hurt every side and I think we should have learned from that. You know, we should have all sat down and said hey, we need to figure out how to do things different so we don’t ever get back here. We constantly resort to violence as an answer instead of using our intellect. And I’m guilty too. I get angry and I get violent… The majority of our population is being taught that fighting and killing is the way to handle problems. We need to make a major change.