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Paul Beiser's avatar

Great column, you hit a number of areas! I too struggle these days to read about our continuous destruction (overfishing, Amazon fires, climate change, etc). It all seems so depressing to me, unless I start putting it all into the context of geological or cosmological time. Then I feel better :-)

I completely agree about Mars, seems like a total waste of human capital and money.

An wonderful photographer and exceptional writer I follow is Guy Tal. He talks about art a lot, and I think you will enjoy this and his 'definition' of art:

https://guytal.blog/2017/07/16/drawing-the-line/

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Sara Bir's avatar

Elon Musk is awful. Let's hope he never runs for president.

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