You exposed its secret and reshape it until it was truly modern. Dialogic, representative, humane. You stripped it of ease and false comfort and fake innocence and evasion and hypocrisy. And in place of deviousness was clarity. In place of soft, plump lies was lean, targeted power. In place of intellectual disingenuousness and what you call “exasperating egocentricity”, you gave us undecorated truth.