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I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are like that too. #allourwrongtodays #elanmastai (at National WWI Museum and Memorial)

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai . I absolutely love the premise of this book. Someone from the utopian techno-future predicted by the 1940’s winds up in our present, which to him is a dystopia. The concept of the outsider struggling with our world not because it’s so futuristic but instead so backwards and broken is brilliant and the whole reason I picked this book up. Unfortunately there is very little of this. Instead we get a rather lack-lustre and cloying attempt at profundity, exploring acceptance and identity from a smug and condescending narrator. The writing is simple and lacks flavour, and while Mastai is apparently aware of this, making direct references to the weaknesses of the text, from a lack of characterisation to the bizarrely short chapters, playing it off as written by someone who hasn’t written before only makes these flaws stand out more. The novel is a highly structured, carefully planned and executed novel which, while interesting, is ultimately underwhelming. #allourwrongtodays #booksivereadin2019 #booksivedrawnin2019 #minimonotonebookclub #bookstagram #illustration #booksreillustrated #houlart #houl https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzsmM_h5P7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18xuzrl1c6cil

The current state of the world isn’t because we stopped believing in an optimistic spirit of wonder and discovery, the current state of the world is the consequence of that belief. People are despondent about the future because they’re increasingly aware that we, as a species, chased an inspiring dream that led us to ruin. We told ourselves the world is here for us to control, so the better our technology, the better our control, the better our world will be. The belief that the world is here for humans to control is the philosophical bedrock of our civilization, but it’s a mistaken belief. Optimism is the pyre on which we’ve been setting ourselves aflame. #allourwrongtodays #elanmastai .
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There aren’t multiple simultaneous dimensions, just one coherent reality, so causal changes in the past ripple through the timeline to resolve paradoxes. But the mechanisms that might make such a thing possible are hazy. Is there a kind of chronal energy that accumulates and releases in the event of a paradox, like a nuclear reaction? And, if so, why would it be oriented to resolving temporal paradoxes here on Earth, when we exist in a cosmic metasystem far grander than the inconsequential life of one particular human being? . . #AllOurWrongTodays #ElanMastai (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

Maybe the first person is the wrong way to tell this story. Maybe if I take refuge in the third person I’ll find some sort of distance or insight or at least peace of mind. The third person is comforting because it’s in control, which feels really nice when relating events that were often so out of control. It’s like a scientist describing a biological sample seen through a microscope. But I’m not the microscope. I’m the thing on the slide. And I’m not writing this to make myself comfortable. If I wanted comfort, I’d write fiction. #AllOurWrongTodays #ElanMastai (at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)