In warm afterglow of soup, thinking about our various mystified ways of thinking about our relationship to the natural world, how an excessive commitment to deontic ethics can feed narcissism, lots of other stuff you don't care about. It is very tempting to fall back on strict rules for oneself given how inconsequential actions tend to be in the face of the surrounding catastrophe, it's just another way of giving up, has the dubious advantage of promoting self-satisfaction. Hard to be too critical, once a more or less realistic appraisal has been made of what's happening, seems to me it's mostly a matter of choosing how best to give up. OK, shower, then work.