The Wall Street Journal summed up the era in 10 words: "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off." Humility Is Not SurrenderStudies on intellectual humility, the meta-cognitive habit of recognizing the edges of one's own knowledge, keep finding the same surprise. That inventory is the one a glowing bottle of radium water could never supply, and no chatbot can generate on your behalf. Where the Path Actually LeadsEvery generation gets convinced it has found the shortcut past its own limits. Every generation, in hindsight, finds it had located one more step on a walk that was always going to be long.