The rhetorics of old greats, we've traded in for 30-seond TikTok twerks. We've made it unfashionable to read.

This makes me read more in fucking protest. Not that it helps.

Imagine Lord of the Rings, but it's the orcs saying "well, I don't feel like Sauron's a bad guy". And Gandalf caving in, saying "well, I guess we just have to agree to disagree and live each in our own little bubble".

Because Gandalf is dead sick of the overheated rhetoric on the internet and would rather just switch off and smoke a pipe.