Matthew offers a meditation on Brandolini’s Law — “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it” — and accepting the hopelessness of altruistic reporting, whether on disinformation or climate change. With a haunting clip from ex-journalist Dahr Jamail. Also: a memory of visiting a Benedictine monastery, where there were no screens, and where the ancient rule understood that because work is never done, it only becomes sustainable through contemplating time itself. 

Show Notes

Primer on Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

Brandolini’s Law

Cuomo covers up nursing home deaths

Sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo

Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil on Last Born in the Wilderness

Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac