If we had started twenty years ago, and if the left weren’t largely against nuclear power, we’d have much fewer issues preventing and adapting to climate change, and all without the left’s joyful litany of all the things they will be forced to take away.

This mostly isn’t the left’s fault, mind you. It’s the right’s and fossil fuel companies for spending so long denying and fighting against doing anything at all about climate change.

What is the left’s fault, though, is their ecstasy and passion for seizing anything that makes life worth living. They want your meat, your air conditioning, your home — next they will probably come for your refrigerator and your washing machine. In fact, I almost guarantee it. Why would they not? Their goal is to have us all live like 13th Century peasants, after all.

We actually have to give very little of that up — or we wouldn’t have to, anyway, if the left as mentioned weren’t so dead-set against the best methods of handling the problem. And if they didn’t think any effort at population control were ab initio eugenics most evil, but that’s a whole different topic altogether.

The left and the right are the Dumb and Dumber of the climate change crisis, and I have no sympathy and want no ties with either side. Both have no minds capable of dealing with any possibly or likely future.

Overheard a friend describing being a straight woman on dating apps: “It’s like Linkedin: the inbounds r always worse on average than outbounds. The guys you message are your dream job and the guys messaging you have an exciting 6-mo java contracting opportunity in Akron, Ohio.”

— Leigh Honeywell (@hypatiadotca) September 4, 2019

And the funny thing is from this description, the friend seems to have no idea that she’s reproducing exactly the same behavior that she’s experiencing and decrying.

That’s easy to explain, and I don’t blame her; men are guilty, too. People absolutely have to be hypocrites about dating, what they really want, and their own minds in reference to this, or it’d all fall apart. And then they have to deny their hypocrisy and play-act being extremely offended if you point out that they are in fact acting hypocritically.

Women are absolutely as guilty of this as men, but just like men they don’t see it — because they only observe and care about the hypocrisy of (usually) men and have no idea how they must and in fact do betray themselves and their own ethics.

It’s a consequence of being apes barely up from the savannah in a world we’re not constructed for, and it’s probably unavoidable.

Nearly every day since I read it many years ago, I think of the Borges story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.” I think about how Menard’s version of Quixote would be a radically different book despite containing all the same words. I ponder, as Borges was, what this means for meaning and its continuity.

We can project so much into the future but the future’s past also reaches back to us with a touch we can’t feel but is just as real as this moment. I think Borges might have been then and still now the only person alive to understand what modernity really meant, and what a break with the past it in fact was.