## Metadata - Author: [[Pankaj Mishra]] - Full Title: The World After Gaza - Category: #books ## Highlights - Much has happened in the world in recent years: natural catastrophes, financial breakdowns, political earthquakes, a global pandemic, and wars of conquest and vengeance. Yet no disaster compares to Gaza – nothing has left us with such an intolerable weight of grief, perplexity and bad conscience. Nothing has yielded so much shameful evidence of our lack of passion and indignation, narrowness of outlook and feebleness of thought. A whole generation of young people in the West was pushed into moral adulthood by the words and actions (and inaction) of its elders in politics and journalism, and forced to reckon, almost on its own, with acts of savagery aided by the world’s richest and most powerful democracies. ([Location 139](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0DD33533R&location=139)) - Tags: [[blue]]