Why are you crying?

 

Democracy falls apart

 

 

Transportation

My assumption is that over the next 40 years, the amount of gas-powered vehicles will go down due to cost of fuel.  

Some will be replaced by electric vehicles or hybrids.

Ultimately, we don’t have enough generation capacity to power all the EVs, even if we could produce them.

The result? 

- Denser communities. 

- A shift towards public transportation. 

- Golf cart-like, short driving radius EVs. 

- Higher stratification as these vehicles will be more expensive. 

Does the bee understand it will die before it stings?

Poetry is a tenderness doubled

 

A culture is no better than its woods

 - W.H. Auden

Love is of the body

 "Love is of the body; not a body, but of the body."

- A Room with a View, E.M. Forster  

Another Great Day of Saving the Bees

 https://www.instagram.com/texasbeeworks/

Looking forward to 2037

 

You're the only power

 

Gene!

 

Lewis Lapham

 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-harpers-podcast/id1405872370?i=1000609289335

calmer woker softer slower

Capturing Democracy

"And I take that to be basically right in an important way with the result that the work of democracy is to continuously resist capture. There is no end of history. There is no state of rest for democracy. Democracy is the work of resisting capture by powerful interests and restoring power-sharing just over and over and over again. So we have to do work to introduce new governance mechanisms in the place of those that are not working.

"Now, this doesn’t always have to mean consultative process exactly. And I think one of the things that is exciting about the time we now live in is there’s lots of room for experimentation with alternative approaches to decision making."

Danielle Allen, 4/14/23

AI

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000604814130 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaked-out-we-really-can-prepare-for-a-i/id1548604447?i=100060513289

Demis Hassabis: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-demis-hassabis.html

"I think that eventually, from a certain vantage point, the values of our current society are going to look incredibly sick.  

"This is a quite good time for more radical politics, to think about more radical political ideas."

-Ezra Klein, 4/7/23

Ruin, by Roxane Gay

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/jordan-neely-killed.html

I been in the field like thе children of the corn

Jamaican Pan Jerk Chicken

 

 

beyond the tower of babel, a descent into depravity

 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/us/phoenix-businesses-homelessness.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/magazine/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html

air is painless

 

Water and Agribusiness

 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/09/grim-reapers-american-farming-ian-frazier