Follow The Light 💡

I’ve been doing some ad hoc research on this. It’s growing very quickly. It picks up on the marginal use of cloud seeding which has been around for decades as well as theoretical and still fairly controversail study of geo engineering as a way to combat climate change … https://t.co/Q2k7fyHVTL

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 9, 2024

Ever hear the one about the drunk looking for his car keys under the streetlight? Is that where he lost them? No. Then why? “The light’s so much better here.”

If you want to find the most lunatic takes on any topic, that used to require seeking out obscure pamphlets and very small press, not to exclude mimeograph (ask yer Grandpa!) publications. It took effort. You had to seek it out. You had to go into the dark corners.

Now we have progress! Now we have the internet. But you still have to consider context. You still have to consider that the light is so much better over here.👈  You have to consider that bugs are attracted to the light. But that doesn’t mean the world now contains nothing but bugs.

The light may seem better here. That doesn’t mean “here” is where the truth is.