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.

Breathtaking stuff. If you go into this book knowing absolutely nothing, it will annihilate you.

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