Mania: How Societies Go Crazy - Lionel Shriver

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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0:00.0	The sequence of manias that I've seen during the last dozen years,
0:06.0	the first and most dramatic in some ways was the sudden obsession with transgenderism.
0:13.0	The Black Lives Matter thing.
0:15.0	And then COVID was a mania, and me too was a mania.
0:20.0	The big red flag on climate change is you couldn't differ.
0:24.6	You throw them all together.
0:27.6	They were demonstrations of our collective capacity to lose our minds.
0:34.6	Hey Francis, do you ever feel like you're missing out by not reading enough woke romance novels?
0:40.3	Yeah, I often think, you know what's missing from my life?
0:44.3	A love triangle featuring a non-binary barista and an anarchist street poet.
0:48.3	All right, all right, I'm sensing some sarcasm.
0:50.3	Let me introduce you to Danielle's Desire, the latest satirical novel by the Tide Moderate.
0:56.1	It's the sequel to the wildly popular Daniel's Passion, a hilarious satire with an average
1:01.0	rating of 4.4 stars on Amazon.com. Sounds promising. Do I have to read the first book, or is
1:06.6	Daniel's desire self-identifying as a standalone? No commitment issues here, mate. It stands alone.
1:12.9	Plus, if you'd rather listen, the audiobook is an audible. So you can enjoy it in the car, at the gym,
1:17.9	or while completing your next corporate sensitivity training. Finally, a book for our times.
1:22.8	Pick up your copy of Daniel's desire today. Available now on amazon.com.
1:28.4	Lionel Shriver, welcome back to Trigonometry. We were just talking about the fact that it's been
1:32.7	six years since you were last on the show. I've been playing hard to get.
1:38.0	And we've been pretty useless, but actually it's so wonderful to have you on.
1:42.5	We were going to truthfully just going to talk to you about
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