the simulation as an appropriate model of what reality is so that we can act upon in an effective way? And two, is the attack on institutions or the deconstruction of the systems of self-governance, et cetera, do those result in part from, actually, I'll just pose it as a question. What does that result from? But take the first one first, if you don't mind. Yeah, let me take the first one because I think what you've hit upon here is an important point. It might be worth sort of walking it through a little bit. So we have a tremendous capacity for producing incredibly rich models and simulations of the past, present, and future. Our capacity to produce these models as forms of technical abstraction is not atrophied whatsoever. I think probably, if nothing else, earth science and climate science are exemplary of this, I will make the argument that the very idea of climate change itself, not the phenomenon, but the concept of it, is an epistemological accomplishment of planetary scale (36/42)
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