Thursday, May 16, 2019

"The day before we’re born is always Eden, and then the day after our children are born is always Mad Max."

Ian McEwan [4.16.19]

"Every loop of that has the effect of making us think that these new things are artificial or unreal or unnatural, and then all it takes is one generation of children extracting information from the world about these things that the previous generation has put in the world for them to become completely natural.

The day before we’re born is always Eden, and then the day after our children are born is always Mad Max. So, if we looked around the room now, we wouldn’t say, 'My god, these people are living in this unbelievably artificial setting. Everything around us is just the creation of a human mind. Nothing about us is natural.' I wonder if when we’re creating creatures, that to the four-year-old, that’s just not even going to be relevant."

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