Étienne, thank you for writing this. This is one of the only pieces I’ve read in the last week that hasn’t made me despair. Even though you think you haven’t much to say, by (a) being honest about what you do and don’t know, and (b) distilling 2500 years of history (accurately for once) and showing how unreal it all seems, is 100x better than so many of the poorly informed, ‘galaxy-brained’ hot takes I’ve seen all week. So thank you.
Étienne, thank you for writing this. This is one of the only pieces I’ve read in the last week that hasn’t made me despair. Even though you think you haven’t much to say, by (a) being honest about what you do and don’t know, and (b) distilling 2500 years of history (accurately for once) and showing how unreal it all seems, is 100x better than so many of the poorly informed, ‘galaxy-brained’ hot takes I’ve seen all week. So thank you.
100% agree