If I am a nobody then by definition you are equally a nobody, unless of course we do actually mean something to those involved in our lives. Everybody is of course somebody. For every article you may have published, I have a course written and completed and evaluated by those who participated typically to a very high level. I actually do think it means something and likewise I am sure you are proud of whatever it is you do. I think your article was a fluff piece, but I do think the photography was quite nice and you captured Greta far more graciously than the childish tantrum I saw recently. And just as the doctor thinks he is contributing, the Prime Minister thinks he is doing his job, or the cleaner cleaning the toilets well, I am somebody, and I am playing my part and indeed do use the word part meaningfully.

If you want to quibble over definitions, a lecturer is by definition also a performer. It is the art of oratory, being able to express ideas clearly, being able to generate and motivate and interest. You have to be a performer to do that and not everybody can do that. I am not a genius, but it is a craft I have worked at for a long time and I am pretty good at it. Even when under the weather, I get the results. It is in the pauses, in the gestures, the subtle glances, in the way one moves. It is performance, though I argue that my primary role is as a writer and a director with a focus on stimulating greater dialogue and expression. It is about getting others to perform to the best of their capabilities. I am a performer and the experience is a theatrical one. I really work on making it enjoyable.

No, I wasn't saying you haven't raised your game. I was on the assault in response to you, but I was more saying that the genuine kind of nobodies are those who don't step up and there are many. It's the druggy single Mum, it's the alcoholic who refuses to get a job, and all of that. Of course they are somebody, but by comparison if we are to talk about people who influence others in their daily lives, I am not exactly a nobody by comparison to those people. I have family and friends like anyone else and as you know I only live alone a few days a week because I started a new job and on the topic of our planet, driving several hundred miles a week is not good for the planet. Do we not agree on that? And because I am happy, we will rent somewhere closer and compromise on transportation. We have to compromise sometimes and that is what I have done this year. There is nothing incredibly empty about my life. I go for dinners, I go for coffee, I play poker, I have family gatherings, I am home more than half my time and of course am a video chat away from my cat who doesn't bloody understand the concept and just rolls around ignoring me. What exactly is it that you think is empty? It is something you level at me and may have made some sense a long time ago, but now not really. My room is getting clean. It is all kind of normal, and yes, not very wild I am afraid as those days are over. What do you want me to do, start drinking, do zany things? I can't do those things. I grew up.

And don't think for a minute my industry is not cut throat either. Don't forget for every job I apply for there are more than 100 applicants. I do pretty alright all things considered. I want for nothing really and that discipline means less life stress.

I was attacking you mainly in response to you attacking me. I mean the very notion that I am not impressed with Greta because of jealousy is frankly one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. I am jealous of nobody on this planet and am very comfortable in my own skin and that hasn't always been the case. My issue with her is that she is threatening people in a childish way and I think she actually does need to grow up a little bit. I think she is being used to bring in a globalist agenda and I don't want that. Nothing she is saying is new, but using a child is very manipulative and the system knows that. I was listening to Springsteen today and at no point was I listening thinking 'Damn I am just so jealous of you. You are someone and I am no one and I just cannot listen to you anymore because of it!' Of course not, the music was awesome and I like him. There is no envy there. "Damn he has hundreds of millions of dollars and I don't! Smash the stereo! Raarrgghhh". It's not really how I think about things. I hate Tony Blair, but there is no jealousy there.

I agree with you that air travel is very unclean and we could use less children and a few more local holidays and things of this nature. I have no intention of heading to Europe or anything like that and I would love to sail to Cambodia on a wooden boat. However, I do not want a one world government to dictate what I can do, it should be personal choice. I do not own a mansion, I do not own a private jet, I do not drive a sports car, I do not do anything out of the ordinary which potentially gets me labelled a nobody as only 'somebodies' have those things and I don't mind that so much.