Matt Snediker’s Reviews > William: An Englishman > Status Update

Guy who considers himself a “history expert” but gets all his knowledge from long form ancient history podcasts and refuses, even at gunpoint, even for money, to even leisurely meander through a book on any of the subjects they’re supposedly “really into”.

Again, Cicely with the logo three pointer, like from way downtown bang with all this predicting-the-future stuff.

This is a book about the alt right pipeline I just can’t prove it. Cicely Hamilton saw the future.

People don’t talk enough about the happy married suffragette socialist couple ➡️ prisoners of war pipeline these days

*frantically writing down “Never go on a honeymoon to Belgium, under any circumstances, even if your older friend from DSA meetings offers you her pastoral spare cottage, equipped with a portly Flemish housemaid and a spry Dinantais farmboy porter; it doesn’t matter how nice it seems; war is inevitable, imminent, and unforgiving; you will have a bad time” in my VERY IMPORTANT REMINDERS notebook*

Masterful stuff, the 45-or-so pages of setup in this book, and the turn it’s taken since then. Mirrors Europe itself: glassy-eyed indifference, simpletonnish ignorance, smile-smacked alwaysness, until suddenly, all at once, the cleave of battle, the crack shot of war.

Or sth like that