Jen’s Reviews > What We Can Know > Status Update

I don’t know what it says about me that the characters are whiffing a bit repugnant - nope with a human frailty cover - where is the damn Corona already (yes, yes effing Scotland or the trash), and I can already see we’re going to forget the existence and cause of as well as the cure for scurvy for the eleventieth time. We are having record scratch-moments of elevated and juvenile story lines. Acid trip.

I like the bit about his students not being interested in history, wondering why we just kept warring and ignoring the signs and the mindless acquisition and not taking action. Were we stupid or something? Why yes, yes we were - you couldn’t tell us anything. And I like the bit about intellectualism is *always* fraught and under fire. The Wittgenstein quotes. Cozy read for being a dystopic aftermath.