The World's Indifference

"...bewildered by the world’s indifference to its imminent demise... 'Obviously that’s a little—optimistic,' Shriver told me, dryly. 'But I think there is something to be said for the fact that there’s a whole host of Western woes that you simply can’t afford in a society which is more desperate.' "

--by Alexandra Schwartz, "Lionel Shriver Imagines America's Collapse," the New Yorker