Early in Hunter Thompson’s The Rum Diary (written in the ‘60s), the protagonist shares a sentiment we all can relate to:

"I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”

At this strange and exciting moment in human history, I certainly feel driven by these two emotional extremes.

Our media landscape is one of forced simplicity: You’re either on Team A, or you’re on Team B. Pick a side!

But the reality is, intelligent people have always been able to hold two ideas in their head at the same time.

It’s not hypocrisy. It’s not inconsistency. It’s intelligence.