Status Updates From Remaking the World: How 177...

“Horace Walpole captured the ambiguity of the Age of Enlightenment & sentiment with his trademark wit: ‘This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.’” P11

“Memory, in contrast, should generate humility: the acknowledgement of our past, with all its strengths & weaknesses, & the recognition that the reason we have the moral convictions we do, & the material advantages we do, is because of our ancestors. As James Baldwin relentlessly pointed out, we are our history.” P7

Take 2, audiobook edition 🫡

So, I am giving up on this one. I had high hopes given the material and setting, but the thesis was so unclear, the chapters so long and convoluted, that I could barely follow it. Wilson tried to clarify at the beginning where he was going with his WIERDER acronym, but soon lost me. I simply think the material he wanted to cover was too expansive to get a clear thesis out of it, period.