He warned us 30 years ago. 😭

Let’s be the courageous people that our descendants will boast about someday.

Re: “children from tweens to 28”, I desperately plead w/everyone who has these people in their lives to read books like this & invest large portions of your time into education. Bonus points to people who do this with kids who aren’t their own. This is one of the only truly impactful opportunities.

But people liked it because they’d get pretty views of the mountains during their 1 hr car commute from hell to/from work. This pic doesn’t do it justice, but hopefully enough to make my point. I’m not defending anything, just trying to show the viewpoint.

To illustrate the viaduct example - see, the area with this road is ugly as shit

I keep hearing people say, “We need a new Tea Party but for leftists!”

Probably worth pausing a moment to recall what the Tea Party actually was - a bunch of corporate funded racists advocating murder of President Obama. I.e. mostly indistinguishable from MAGA

Just some stuff I wrote on the train - hence sloppy penmanship.

No doubt! Hopefully it’s the kind of island where I can use this wonderful device. 😊

Jon Krakauer used this quote in Into Thin Air. I bought a copy while wandering around Marseilles hungover back in my Navy days. I’ve ever since been looking for a copy of the damn Charles Bowden book. It’s felt weirdly relevant for over 20 years.

One single page and so many parallels with our current situation with the ketchup thrower.

From 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦 by Benjamin Carter Hett

From a new favorite, The Quiet Ways I Destroy You by Jessica McHugh

Looks like this guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark

I like this ideal from David Graeber and David Wengrow, but nowadays I see far more people bowing before the big apes than mocking them. Maybe we are actively regressing in this way. The image is one of us consciously forfeiting our humanity, whatever that means.