Lionel Shriver (2024) Mania.

Lionel Shriver (2024) Mania.

I read a wee bit of this book. Not for me. Mania is a conceit. Ostensibly it’s about the policing of language in an Orwellian sense and thereby the policing of thought and behaviour. No one can be called dumb. Everyone needs to practice being a snowflake.

Right-wing media love that idea they’re fighting for something bigger than the moron’s moron Trump and his vile worldview.

This is shown in the opening pages of ALT(ernative)2011.

‘…my son’s school had rung me to say he was being sent home for bullying.’

His mum reasoned, Darwin wasn’t a bully. He was top of his class. Yet, he’d fallen foul of the name laws and orthodoxy. He hadn’t called another kid dumb, but he had said his T-shirt was dumb, which in that zeitgeist was much the same thing.

The Office of Cognitive Equality had similarly left her career as a college lecturer (in literature, naturally) dangling.

277 pages. Sigh.

Colonel Jessup:

Lt. Kaffee (Tom Cruise): "I want the truth!"

Colonel Jessup:
"You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know.

Liberal democracy versus ilIliberal Freedom? I know I ain’t reading 277 pages, even though I weep for Santiago. Read on.

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