George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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left in me between this kind of hollowed out city.
And at that point, it had become a bit unfriendly, rural area, because we were coming from the city and maybe carrying the plague with us.
I started to think, what if there were checkpoints?
on the Taconic Parkway.
What would that be like?
And the checkpoints were not friendly checkpoints, but we're looking for things and wanted to know what you were doing there and why did you leave your city?
And that all began to put in mind a story about an empire that collapses out of boredom.
It dies of boredom.
And in the vacuum, these movements of young people emerge and
new political ideas and formations.
And in the city, it's a sort of utopian egalitarian movement.
And in the countryside, it's more like male power and physical strength and even violence.
So the burghers in the city are moving in one direction.
The yeomen in the countryside are moving sort of in an opposite direction.
But in both cases, the young are responding to the failure of this empire by trying to create something new.
And the main...
Plot is about a family in the city, a doctor, his wife, and their two kids.
And what happens to the family as a result of this?
Essentially, the division in society also becomes a division in the family between the doctor and his daughter, his teenage daughter, who gets caught up in this new movement, which he finds...
in some ways frightening and seems alien to him.
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