Fear Of Everything
Why we’re in the mess we’re in and why we probably won’t get out of it
Sometimes I look at pictures of the cave paintings at Lascaux and I wonder if their real purpose was to terrify the audience. I can imagine a proto-journalist caveperson pointing to a big bison or heavily-antlered buck on the cave wall, seeming to move in the flickering light of an oil lamp, and shouting, “It’s…