excerpt from one of Christopher Hitchens last interviews
- Richard Dawkins: I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.
- Christopher Hitchens: Yes; it's broken down with me.
- Richard Dawkins: It's astonishing how much traction the left-right continuum [has] . . . If you know what someone thinks about the death penalty or abortion, then you generally know what they think about everything else. But you clearly break that rule.
- Christopher Hitchens: I have one consistency, which is [being] against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. And the origins of that are theocratic, obviously. The beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader, or infallible pope, or a chief rabbi, or whatever, who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do.
excerpt from one of Christopher Hitchens last interviews
- Richard Dawkins: I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.
- Christopher Hitchens: Yes; it's broken down with me.
- Richard Dawkins: It's astonishing how much traction the left-right continuum [has] . . . If you know what someone thinks about the death penalty or abortion, then you generally know what they think about everything else. But you clearly break that rule.
- Christopher Hitchens: I have one consistency, which is [being] against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. And the origins of that are theocratic, obviously. The beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader, or infallible pope, or a chief rabbi, or whatever, who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do.
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