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September 26, 2007
We are subject to these delusions
George Stroumboulopoulos encounters Christopher Hitchens on The Hour (Part 1, Part 2). The show is CBC's attempt to be relevant to a youthful audience. Hitchens does not pull any punches.
An instant, as you say, in evolutionary time. It's bizarre isn't it that people would think about all those generations; born, died, probably a life expectancy of about twenty years. Probably died of their teeth or killed by each other. Famine, they didn't know how to do food properly. Disease, they didn't know there were germs. But only in the last six thousand years of this existence does Heaven suddenly decide to intervene and reveal itself. And only in very iffy parts of the Middle East. It's not possible to believe this nonsense and it has very sinister consequences."
More ownage: Part I of V, "You are created sick and commanded to be well; the essence of the totalitarian principle."
Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 26, 2007 07:03 AM
