Lionel Shriver
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But they're not utopian.
They are dystopian.
In fact, they are nihilistic.
I don't think there is any positive vision for the future.
It's just a complete blank, no future.
That's nihilistic.
And it's easy.
You know, it's staying home.
It's not building anything.
It's not making anything.
And it's not appreciating anything.
It's not humbly accepting that many people have come before you that make your smartphone possible and your sewage and your supermarket full of infinite array of food.
I mean, it's an ungrateful position.
and that's all that's that's easy too because gratitude requires humility it's it's not something that that makes you vain right it is it is and gratitude requires some some energy uh a generosity and
And I think the whole progressive left, which I talked to a little bit with Winston, is just incredibly narcissistic.
And I find that ironic because this is in the guise of caring so much for others.
I thought you were going to say girl.
No.
I like pet better.
Yeah.