Addendum.

"I also get the sense that none of them have dared, and that has allowed them an easy path to advancement." I feel like in the past few years, bad fortune and being present across many different little groups of people has both made me morose, and observing life like a Balzac novel. More and more lately, I notice myself making these sweeping but not inaccurate pronouncments about life, that are pithy and contain multiple abstract nouns.