The Big Here and the Long Now by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Holiday bored of her research on

bored of her research on Afropessimism

state agencies are partnering with disadvantaged communities to measure air quality

Are these two providing much-needed distraction to one another—or a disruption to each of their carefully mapped out plans for introspection

From muddy rainforests to star-covered night deserts

with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch

The Big Here and the Long Now by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Holiday bored of her research onFor thousands of years, humanity's story was one of diversification. Across centuries and continents, our species proliferated new approaches to family and community life; to agriculture, economics, religion, artistic expression, and self understanding. Today, this process is in reverse. Culturally and ecologically, we are witnessing an almost universal drive towards homogeneity and the loss of diversity. The global forces of capitalism have created a