Skiing Is Politics
“There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave.” —Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Skiing is politics. That’s true unless you’re actively in a powder turn with stellar dendrites contrailing behind you as you go subatomic, weightless, effortless, and your entire existence becomes dark matter in the twitch of time between future and past, between a face shot and a track.
Other than that fleeting bliss of escapism, skiing is politics. You can’t separate the two.
The gas you buy to get to the hill…politics. The roads you
