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it's understandable given our relative disempowerment on the matter, but it feels a little bread-and-circusy to focus on picture-taking rather than a real-life
by clairity 6y ago
it's understandable given our relative disempowerment on the matter, but it feels a little bread-and-circusy to focus on picture-taking rather than a real-life approximation of an airborne toxic event[0].
in LA, we had a bit of a clearing yesterday, but the bobcat fires (and others) have turned us hazy and slightly orange again. i can feel it in my airways. it's more worrisome than the corona everyone else seems to be fretting about, because it certainly will cause unseen damage to everyone's lungs in varying amounts. hundreds of thousands die every year from air pollution.
[0] delillo, white noise
- thethethethe 6y agoI don’t think this article is bread and circusy. I think it highlights how absurd this situation is. Our denial and assumptions about the world are so deep, they are encoded in our algorithms to the point where we can’t even record this event accurately.
- clairity 6y agosure, but that's because you've interpreted what is otherwise a pretty banal piece. you've said something more interesting in a sentence than that whole "article". (i didn't even see the photos because google amp infests the site and i block it out of principle. not a fan of leading every paragraph with bold in an effort to be hard-punchingly pithy either.)