Inscriptions on Immanuel Kant's grave in Königsberg, after the city was captured by Soviet troops:
"Did you think that a Russian Ivan would stand on your ashes???"
"Volodya, Port Arthur, Moscow."
"The Ural people were here."
"We were here too. Leningrad."
"Now do you understand that the world is material?"
Statistically, Gen Zs are:
- reading fewer books
- less sexually active
- drinking less alcohol
- smoking less than millennials
- less likely to follow cricket
- dumber than previous generations
- not wasting afternoons watching ants crawl
so bc wtf are they actually doing?
It truly is incredible how prescient Adam Smith and David Hume were for their time, and how well insightful they still are, when when wrong. We really do forsake the great Enlightenment thinkers at our own peril.