Sean Gunderson
7 days ago19 min read
Counteracting the Invisible Hand: A Case for Patronage in an Unraveling World
I. Opening: A Life on the Edge of the Spotlight In 2024, I received a message that changed something deep within me — not because it told me something new, but because it finally echoed back what I had carried quietly for years. Someone in the film world looked at the arc of my life, the years of survival, the improbable endurance, the way pain and insight had become entangled, and said This should be a movie. There was a moment — brief, crystalline — when everything stilled.







