From Lucy to iPhones

The human story of going apart and then coming together

The perpetual ooze of human nature flows forever through the sharp artifice of regulation and statute, overwhelming it like a mold, like rust on an old tractor, like a mob storming a Capitol; the garden has overgrown the machine. Trump is forcing us to learn this the hard way.

Earlier this week I wrote a post about the general text skepticism that is a hallmark of the conservative mind. What I didn’t mention in that post was that more often than not this kind of text and tech-skepticism is intimately tied up in the discourse of “Nature.”