Sitting in The Interval, enjoying an excellent cocktail, and reading Stewart Brand's quote on the wall:

"Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed."

And thinking about our fucking president who started a war he's already bored with after four weeks, but will have consequences for generations to come ...

While the Western US experiences the start of a catastrophic drought, the kind that collapsed the Anasazi civilization ...

We ain't gonna pull out of this unless we apply some sort of corrective -- and soon.

#longnow #iran #climatechange #polycrisis #collapse