Bio (quick context)

It has taken a long time to foster my intellectual curiosity and insatiable appetite for reading and learning. In my teens and early-twenties I treated the educational institutions I attended with disdain and resentment. I now regret my flippant and dismissive attitude of the past. However, on my own time, by my own endeavors, I learned a great deal through public libraries, documentaries, and by an unwavering passion to understand my life and the world around me that provides context.

I wanted to understand how the world works, how humans create conditions for themselves and others by intent or negligence. I wanted to understand why my life is the way it is, on a socio-economical-technical level. Why we humans are the way we are: complaining, yet complacent. Loving, yet capable of so much pain. Why society seems to stall out, regress, and even collapse, when the alternative: meaningful progress, is just as viable and is always worth defending and striving for.

Despite my fire of intellectual curiosity being lit, I still struggled with personal issues, mostly stemming from a lack of purpose and direction. In 2013 I found my purpose: to promote Direct Democracy. Though Direct Democracy fires me up, it doesn’t pay for my expenses. After many unsatisfactory jobs, and switching to various colleges, online colleges, and majors, I have finally found my true passion in writing.

I have been writing screenplays for just over a year now, I have completed three thus far (as of Dec. 2018). My second screenplay was, a quarter-finalist in the Low Light Pictures screenplay competition (2018). I know I will be a successful, professional writer. More importantly, it’s something a genuinely love to do.

My past had its ups and had plenty of downs, but I don’t want to get caught up in that here. The important thing is not so much what I overcame, but what I continue to do because overcoming these obstacles made me into the passionate and determined person I am today.

Thank you

-          Ian David Tripp, born Oakland California, 1989