Daniel Austin Green

A street level view of cyclists in front of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. There is construction on the towers of the building. Photo by Alejandro Garcia/EPA, via Shutterstock.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, the famous unfinished church, is inching toward completion after more than 140 years, with five of its six central towers fully built as of last week. But construction of Antoni Gaudí’s basilica will last until at least 2026. nyti.ms/3F2mpGQ

“It’s often difficult to identify the moment when an intellectual movement jumps the shark and becomes an intellectual fad — or, worse, self-parody.”

Seems we’ve reached the point of self-parody.