Colin Dismuke

Landfill's reputation as environmentally disastrous doesn't survive scrutiny: reuse only beats single-use plastic after hundreds of washes, recycling contamination runs near 25%, and America has nearly a century of natural gas feedstock for making new bags anyway.

Widespread complaints that time is accelerating trace not to actual velocity but to a collapse in memory formation: routine, screen-mediated days generate fewer distinct memories, so retrospectively the months compress.

Inga Clendinnen's 1991 study of the Aztec empire argues that mass human sacrifice was not peripheral religious custom but the organizing principle of Mexica civilization, woven bureaucratically into daily life, art, warfare, and cosmology itself.