Lionel Shriver
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's right.
We are all going to die.
And if you keep thinking like that, there will be no future.
That's very self-fulfilling.
If nobody has kids, that's it.
And most of all,
There is the rejection of the Western heritage.
That's convenient, too.
If you reject it, you don't have to learn it.
You don't have to appreciate it.
You don't have to read any of those long books.
You just say it's all evil.
You don't have to learn anything about history if you decide all history is bad.
You make it very simple.
Americans reduce it to slavery.
and the slaughter of the Indians.
That's all you need to know about history.
Oh, and you need to know a little bit of World War II so that you can call the enemy Nazis and fascists.
That's about it.
And it seems as if the left in both our countries is utopian.