Will Self Op-Ed in Le Monde Explores Omniscience and Impotence

British writer Will Self, in an op-ed for Le Monde, observes that humanity's historical condition is a unique blend of omniscience and impotence, overwhelmed by signals yet feeling both predetermined and uncontrollable.

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Will Self: 'Our historical condition is a peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence'

We are bombarded by a swarm of signals too numerous to interpret in time, and the world appears both predetermined and uncontrollable, observes the British writer in an op-ed for Le Monde.

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