poisonousness

It would be impossible to tell this story as set in the present day without engaging with MAGA, building the wall, locking her up, Facebook radicalization, QAnon, and all the other poisonousness that has seeped into the rural, downwardly mobile, racially isolated white boomer electorate.

They’ll endure, as must our confrontation with the poisonousness of the man who made them.

As I exited the theatre, I realized that the poisonousness and discomfort I was missing—the depiction of complex human characters driven near-mad by spite and lust and jealousy and loathing and bitterness—were already in an earlier Baumbach movie.

Heaven because the transition we need to make and are making – just not big enough or fast enough – is not only an power-generation revolution, but a decentralization of political power, a shift away from the big energy companies who used governments to make wars and make profits for them, a shift away from the poisonousness of fossil fuel.

Frogs of every color and degree of poisonousness, rosette-coated ocelots, trees that rose up out of the water on stiltlike roots, piranhas, innumerable birds, a place whose noises at night the moon could only begin to imagine and that was capable of producing so much oxygen.