page 151 of 222 of Monday Begins on Saturday

I’ve got to hand it to the authors for being able to cram so many ideas and concepts into a single chapter. From discussing how real science is boring and bad science is flashy (like bad magic), to the idea of conjuring art as if it were magic and how difficult it can be to reproduce a concept artistically. And then there’s the economic ideas of consumption and greed … there’s a lot of substance here to ponder.