right about the problems but hilariously, tragically wrong about the solutions (opens in new tab)

Everyone seems to be talking or thinking or reading (about) Stewart Brand right now, which I presume must mean he’s made or making or about to make some new intervention in the culture, any knowledge of which I have largely been spared, other than these peripheral encounters themselves, of course. It’s a little like being a coulrophobe who hears that the circus has come to town; you can just make a mental note to avoid the area for a while.