Nature is angry

The air is filled with smoke. Ashes fall like snow. It's hotter than it's ever been. Winds and waters destroy our infrastructure, explode our factories. Is it hubris to think we can do whatever we want and still thrive on this planet? Look to the future. It's time to change ourselves.

Change, please

I watched this video of an Isaac Asimov video, and THIRTY YEARS ago he is describing how we're destroying our environment and there will be deserts and the population will destroy earth and so on. We've known about this for even longer. Why will nothing change? People are lazy, short sighted, greedy. That's why. We …

The world goes on

People you haven't seen for a dozen years are doing interesting, exciting, boring, frustrating, amazing, awful things. They are making friends, having epiphanies, worrying over tough decisions, and maybe you pop into their head now and then, maybe more or less than they pop into your head. The strange and huge world of other people's …

Peace on Earth, by Stanislaw Lem

I finished Peace on Earth and I think it's possible that I didn't 'get' this book. I have found afterward that it was meant to be a satire, and though some of it was funny, I took it more of a straight up sci fi adventure/thought piece. Maybe that is why I was a bit …

Weaponized insanity

No, this isn't a political post... I'm still listening to Peace on Earth and in it, they have the idea of a drug or weapon that induces psychosis. This would be a much more effective way of eliminating someone who knows too much. Killing them would draw attention to them, and start an investigation--but if …