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"I am all for Greek philosophers, but they lived in a sort of pre-scientific age, and many of them left no writings and are best remembered mainly for their most outrageous claims.
Actually that sounds a lot like us."
— Matt Levine 1/13/2017

It sounded almost charming when I sent it to a friend eight years ago. These days it's some mix of ominous and depressing. The discourse around the fires has reminded me that there is no love affair as potent as the one with the imagined moral high ground