Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.