Status Updates From A Time to Be Born

“It was a sucker age, an age for any propaganda, any cause, any lie, any gadget, and scorning this susceptibility chroniclers sang the stubborn cynicism of past heroes who would not believe the world was round.”

hmmm……sounds familiar……unfortunately…..

I don't know if this is literally on the wall-of-shame-tbr-too-long; but I've meant to read it since the 90s.