Erika, thank you for that brilliant metaphor. Trying to find value on the internet has indeed become almost exactly like watching Saturday morning cartoons back in the 70's. After watching the one or two decent ones, we would just go on staring at the passably tolerable ones, only to find ourselves then suffering through the intolerable ones or the contrivedly staged boredom of Petticoat Junction. That was when the serious fights would start breaking out, and we'd get sent outside to play — what a welcome relief that always was!

Now, after reading Ecosophia's magical offerings, I end up going on to browse Strategic Culture Foundation or Zero Hedge in the often vain hope of finding anything of value. Eventually, I find myself foolishly following links into all the incessant chattering about the news of the day, as though I might otherwise somehow miss out on whatever current thing we privileged primates happen to be hooting about this week. The contrivedly staged boredom of the modern world is just a bad habit that I got trained in very young, and really do need to break.

There are so many forests calling me to explore them, and so many projects craving my attention. Why have I still not learned that staring at screens inevitably just leads to boredom and fights? How dull the amazing world around us ends up looking when we try to cram all its natural wonder onto a flattening screen. Art poorly imitating life sadly imitating Petticoat Junction — the gods help us!

— Christophe