I was very game for the Essay War. Ryan, a fellow Substack writer and good friend from my college days, suggested we both write about the—at that point, impending—eclipse. Six days after the event, Ryan wrote a beautiful piece about his experience of it in Cleveland and the conflicting feelings about humanity and modernity it brought up for him. Leading up to the event, I did not know what I was going to write about an event so deeply written about already. I was lucky enough to naturally live in the path of totality and considered taking a day trip out to Fredericksburg or Waco, towns where people would be flocking in from all over the world by the thousands. That sort of communality for such an event could be miraculous or annoying. Ultimately, I landed on
Eclipsed by Fear
Eclipsed by Fear
Eclipsed by Fear
I was very game for the Essay War. Ryan, a fellow Substack writer and good friend from my college days, suggested we both write about the—at that point, impending—eclipse. Six days after the event, Ryan wrote a beautiful piece about his experience of it in Cleveland and the conflicting feelings about humanity and modernity it brought up for him. Leading up to the event, I did not know what I was going to write about an event so deeply written about already. I was lucky enough to naturally live in the path of totality and considered taking a day trip out to Fredericksburg or Waco, towns where people would be flocking in from all over the world by the thousands. That sort of communality for such an event could be miraculous or annoying. Ultimately, I landed on