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And every day I am confronted by the question of what inheritance I will leave. What do I have that I am using up? For it has been our history that each generation in this place has been less welcome to it than the last. There has been less here for them. At each arrival there has been less fertility in the soil, and a larger inheritance of destructive precedent and shameful history.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
SCIENCE FICTION IDEAS TAO LIN It was October 2042 and Lydia was trying to remember if she’d ever known with certainty whether the chicken or the egg came first.
Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
This brings up a deep philosophical insight about the fact that we simply can’t be on the outside looking in. Scientists call this fact ‘confirmation bias’ and philosophers call it ‘the hermeneutic circle’ and ‘phenomenological style’. There is no way to escape such things. How I interpret data will depend on what I think I want to find. How I see myself depends on the kind of person I am. How I interpret things is entangled with prefabricated concepts about what interpreting means.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
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