Friday, 27 July 2018

encyclopedic knowledge is easy enough to come by these days but the capacity to register or appreciate the importance of that knowledge is altogether rarer; there is knowledge that exits as plentiful surface water and there are also wells that dig deeply into the world and our psyches

You’re right that the underlying point can be stated more bluntly. Here it is in a sharper form, without dressing it up: Modern states don’...