“Old stories get retold with the endings sanded off. Old holidays get re-branded and merchandised. The old canon becomes an object of suspicion instead of an object of love. Meanwhile the mass migration into every Western capital changes the demographic ground under the story at the same rate the story is being rewritten above it. Two pressures, same press, same output — a population that no longer has a coherent sense of where it came from and therefore no coherent basis on which to object to where it is being taken.”
— Jan Wellmann — 7/11/26