Steve McAlphabet
7 min readSep 20, 2022

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Understanding Conservatism

In the hopes of producing a documentary from my cross-country motorcycle trip, I am asking my couchsurfing hosts about the importance of understanding people. These days, in the Age of Outrage, it is common and acceptable to point fingers and blame other people for their ignorance, fueling our feelings of being upset and hopeless but not fully engaging our capacity to learn and understand. I think it’s more important to understand people than it is to merely judge them and dismiss their humanity, as is so prevalent today.
Most if not all of my couchsurfing hosts lean more liberally. It’s not always something that’s discussed…

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Steve McAlphabet

I recently produced a documentary about my 73 day motorcycle tour to celebrate the legacy of Will Rogers and perform my show “Get The Bunk Out”.