PanJacobinSpare... jumps chaotically from a myriad of different stylistic registers. At one point he refers to the radio as \'the wireless;\' at another the British press as \'padre\' — who speaks like this? Is this vernacular supposed to add charm and approachability to the millionaire prince? ... We, the reader, listen in to the trauma of belonging to a family where you are repeatedly told you do not belong — by that family, by the press, by a schooling system whose eminent success is molded on principles of exclusive brutality. It would be easy, after reading dozens of pages of self-absorption protesting otherwise, to forget that he is an insider ... There is little space for reflection on his role in the military horrors of which he partook in Afghanistan ... His strategy seems to be a principle of radical honesty... But honesty is not the same as accountability (a word that is used once in this context) of his role in a violent and... illegitimate war which replays the imperial violence of the century before it ... Instead of any serious political thinking we get a descent into autofiction about the traumas of the late ’90s and the abjection of millennial life.
