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Chris La Tray's avatar

I think I am an angrier person now because I am so much more in awe over the wonder in the world than I was as a younger man; I'm angry because so few seem to really give a fuck about it. I mean, one of the most spectacular, impossible sights I've witnessed over the last couple decades was the first time I saw a meadow light up with fireflies. It's right up there with seeing an orca breach, or hearing wolves howl. And all of these wonders are under dire threat right now because humans need lights on 24x7, or want fresh seafood every day thousands of miles from a shoreline, etc. I know this is a downer, but goddamn do I love all that stuff and hate to watch it being destroyed by us. With maybe only a decade or two of life left on this earth, I feel I'm really at a crossroads in deciding how to live on it, and I don't feel particularly courageous in the face of these choices.

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That New Yorker article on personality is fascinating. I've got to go to sleep, but thanks for the recommendation -- I'll finish it tomorrow. I have so many thoughts about this -- about whether we change and what our core personalities are, etc. -- but one of them is, did you ever watch the TV series, The Good Place? I have this odd, almost embarrassing, obsession with it. Like, I've never, ever seen a TV series this many times. I watch it while I brush my teeth at night now because I don't really need to hear the dialogue any more, y'know? Anyway, the point is that its premise is (at least in part) that we become better (or worse) people based on the people we're around. And I think there's a lot to that.

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