On Humility and a Culture in Crisis

Deep Fix №12. Olshonsky argues that the defining feature of our cultural moment is a near-total disappearance of humility — public, intellectual, and interpersonal — and that this is not coincidental to the various crises we keep talking about but is itself the crisis underneath them. He treats humility not as self-abasement but as the discipline of being willing to be wrong, to be slow, to not know, and traces what its absence does to politics, friendship, and the inner life of the people who scroll for hours each day.