This piece is illuminating — drawing together many political and cultural threads,—to weave a picture of one of the planet’s most remote regions,—that somehow also seems to mirror what is happening in locales more central to world and local affairs. Even your own town.
American Football takes a toll. And the players are starting to get the full picture. They don’t want to mortgage their future health for a ballgame.
Is it possible that we will all come back around to paper and pencil as the best option for cross generational, cross millennial, transmission of information and culture?
This story will be worth following. And might be as close to “must see livestream TV” as a chess match could ever get. I’m hoping to watch. Will I remember … Hopefully so.
Yes, there’s ice. Ice is frozen water. But there’s also liquid in those hills. Can we glimpse the earth’s future here? How was the water cycle disrupted and the atmosphere destroyed?
I think probably think about this sort of thing too much. It’s one of the reasons I routinely consider giving up any kind of streaming service - I like the idea of leaving behind a media legacy and an explanation of who I was, for whomever might care to know.
I love this idea. Knowing where you stand in the universe.