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Started strong but is currently collapsing in on its own overly-inflated sense of self-awareness. wants to weave in and out of taking itself seriously often enough that it’s sort of losing me a bit. The section on “greatness” is simply too abstract and low stakes for me to care all that much.

Already a breath of fresh air. It’s rare for authors nowadays to write criticism in the classical sense of that term - not to be critical as in the convenient and often self-puffing cynical slam-piece - but to be critical as in to think independently, through the good and the bad elements of a thing, and to come to a new understanding of something not through absorption of more data, but through real reflection.