In school, rarely do we learn how data become facts, how facts become knowledge, and how knowledge becomes wisdom.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 5, 2017

Yeah, Neil, that’s called the humanities. That’s where you learn those things. You know that area of human inquiry that you constantly demean? Philosophy, epistemology, history and all associated fields?

Even our public “intellectuals” are terrible these days.

I think Ex Machina and The Witch are the best movies I’ve seen in the last decade.

The Witch is just…something else.

I have no idea how it felt to live as a 17th Century Puritan, but the film feels so foreign, so strange, that it even if it didn’t achieve verisimilitude I’d not know and what it did achieve is amazing in how non-modern it felt.

Wish more mainstream “historical” films could do as much, or work as hard to capture an era.

No matter what — Harvey drowning Houston, Irma being the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in recorded history — there are and will be loads of people who deny and disavow climate change. No evidence will matter.

I know this because people literally die for stupid, wrong beliefs every day. The threat of death and imminent mortality has almost never caused anyone to change their ideology. Think climate change is different? I don’t.

Even after climate change submerges cities, destroys nations and lights off wars, a huge percentage of the population will deny it has occurred, will occur, or that it matters at all.

Humans aren’t capable of dealing with the society we’ve manged to build. Just aren’t. Maybe never will be.