Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.

In The End, The Work Of Diplomats Continues Even While Others Fight. So, It's Not Necessarily True That Everyone Needs To March.

The Best Time To Act On This Was Decades Ago. The Second Best Time Is Now.

In Contrast, Markets - Oft Mythologized As "natural" Are The Most Unnatural Things Going. Libertarians Will Tell You "market Laws Are Laws Of Nature", What Baloney. Markets - And The Other Great Modernist Cornucopian Tools - Are Magnificent Wealth Generating Machines, Built Ad-hoc, Through Trial And Error, Constantly Fine-tuned And Refined, Tinkered, Adjusted.

The Worst Mistake Of First Contact, Made Throughout History By Individuals On Both Sides Of Every New Encounter, Has Been The Unfortunate Habit Of Making Assumptions. It Often Proved Fatal.

History And Geology Show What An Eyeblink It's Been Since Our Current, Comfortable Culture Came About. And Yet That Culture Is Using Up Absolutely Everything At A Ferocious Rate.