‘Would you like a beer?” asks Alan Alda, tall and elegant in black raincoat, grey jacket and blue jeans as he walks through his offices near the Lincoln Center in New York. The actor, director and science communicator warmly greets Einstein, a female half bernese mountain dog, half border collie. “Smartest dog I ever met,” Alda’s assistant later observes.
From the rest of the article, I take it that he believes it extraordinary that humans may live with wonder, generosity, and graciousness - all while knowing we are going to die.
What's even more astounding is that we live as if we think no one else is going to die later for our actions now. That we think our own children will survive our shortsighted and selfish behaviors While we ignore the Zuckerbergs and Jack s of the world
You have to do that to survive