ENG 21 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sherden, Smart People, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series
12 Jul 2021
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We are outraged and demoralised less by the impending end of our species, less even by our inability to prevent it, than by our failure to discover the cause. Western science and western medicine haven"t prepared us for the magnitude and humiliation of this ultimate failure. People focus on the things that they have failed at, rather than how to prevent or save that thing. In this case, people, from the children of men, are outraged and demoralised by the fact that no one can figure out why everyone is infertile. The citizens live in a dehumanized state, because they are obsessed with this technology. People are so used to this that theo blames western science and medicine for not preparing them for humiliation. Humiliation from not being able to figure out what is causing this infertility epidemic. If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. () most of the.
