Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.