Without Warning

El libro es medio flojito, para pasar el rato nada más, pero me quedó dando vueltas la descripción que hace una de las protagonistas, hablando con una activista progre por la paz, sobre lo que fue la vida normal de la humanidad durante el 99% de la historia.

Parece mentira, pero muchísima gente asume que la democracia, la república, los derechos humanos y las libertades individuales siempre fueron la norma:

Do you know how unusual it is in human history, for children to be able to grow up in a place like this? Never knowing the fear of someone riding over the horizon to steal their family’s crops and burn their hut to the ground, and all as a prelude to being snatched up as slaves for the rest of their miserable fucking lives - that’s normality, baby. That’s life as it has been lived by most human beings through most of our history. That’s what I’ve been fighting against my entire adult life, variations on that theme. That’s what America protected you from. And now she’s gone.