Welcome to ‘Human, All Too Human.’ I’m David Sacks, a student and classical concert pianist, in my third year as an undergraduate at Brown University. I’m concerned with contemporary issues in politics, culture, and life more generally, and I attempt to make sense of it all with help from some of the great writers and thinkers of Western Civilization.
I am very young, and I am as yet ill-versed in matters of the world, so I will forbear from commenting explicitly on political issues, though I am concerned, as most people are, with the workings of the polis. I wish instead to engage in literature and philosophy as consolation, presenting original creative work and analysis of work better than I could hope as I am to produce myself to understand and come to terms with life and what it is to be human. I wish to engage in an inquiry of what defines the human condition, through this literary-philosophical perspective. I am sure I will fail to do this adequately — I am, as I say, very young and inexperienced. But I have learned and taken comfort from different works and the brilliant minds of Classical Antiquity, and I hope to impart some of this to a broader audience and in so doing offer a perspective on life which I personally appreciate. At the least, perhaps something here will be interesting to some.
I cordially invite you to join me in this project.
In the meantime, tell your friends!