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'Humility [of discipleship] as humiliation' has such rich explanatory power in our age for the felt pressure that makes us flit from thin desire to thin desire in the quest of "originality" and "uniqueness".

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Tara,

I "met" you last night on the zoom with Natasha, which I enjoyed very much.

I enjoyed also this essay. I've noticed that no group of people are more suspect to the Dunning-Kruger effect than extremely successful businesspeople and entrepreneurs who decide that skill and insight (and luck) in their one field of great accomplishment makes them equally skillful in other fields. And people listen to them, making the same mistake.

Also, you taught me a new word: "haecceity"

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