No, I'm Not A Very Methodologically Pure

This Place [usa] Is Exploding With Young People Who Are - They're Like Nietzsche's Hammer - Going To Break Everything And Make Something Better. The Creative Energy In This Country, And What People Are Coming Up With Is Very Hopeful.

It's Ginned Up By The Corporate Plutocracy As A Way Of Distracting The Working-class People That It's Screwing. We Hamstring Our Own Natural Progressivism In This Country, And That's Really Stupid.

As We Say In The Sewer, Time And Tide Wait For No Man.

But At The Same Time, The Film Industry Just Got Torched. The Risk Tolerance For The Types Of Movies We're Talking About Is Lower, And The Reason For That Is That The Captains Of The Industry Were Asleep At The Switch When Their Core Business Was Being Disrupted. And They're Never Getting It Back. In A Way, It Makes It All The More Exciting When The Good Ones Get Through.

Most Of Us Still Believe In The Intrinsic Value Of Nature, But I Think The First Century Of The Environmental/conservation Movement Demonstrated Pretty Clearly That This Value Cannot Compel A Civilization-wide Shift Toward Sustainable Behavior And Enterprise When Stacked Up Against The Urgent Economic And Social Needs Of 7 Billion People, Most Of Whom Are Struggling To Get Out Of Poverty.