up:: [[Blogs and Essays]] date:: 2024-02-28 author:: [[About Me|Francis Wang]] tags:: #output/todo # Confessions of An Aspiring Romantic cover:: Notes for writing: * what did you feel when you watched Oppenheimer? * genius/artists are recognized by later generations * two types - such obsession that the concern never crosses their minds or * dogged pursuit despite knowing the consequences * human must suffer for art to be meaningful * both these types of romantic I can imagine, yet I may not be able to experience * so I cried. its a related concept i feel about sustainability - with industrial revolution and fossil fuel, we are using up millions of years of stored energy for unprecedented advancement in mankind - and it's going towards possible ruins, as with all evolving systems, (temporary) instability - so the goal here to to use this spike in knowledge to figure out a sustainable, stable equalibrium again - before disaster is truly irreversible, and not enough energy in store to recover