What would Christopher Hitchens say about the catastrophic failure of reason during the COVID pandemic? In this satirical reimagining, Hitchens’ razor-sharp wit and unflinching moral clarity are unleashed on both authoritarian lockdown enthusiasts and deranged conspiracy theorists who turned a health crisis into an intellectual apocalypse.
From his imagined vantage point, Hitchens dismantles the grotesque theater of government overreach, exposing how politicians who couldn’t organize a birthday party suddenly appointed themselves supreme commanders of human movement. He equally skewers the anti-vaccine warriors doing “research” on YouTube while typing on phones that actually tracked their every movement. Most damningly, he reveals how institutional mendacity and media complicity destroyed the very possibility of rational public discourse when we needed it most.
Join us as we explore how Hitchens’ fearless defense of intellectual honesty might dissect the pandemic’s most lasting casualty: the death of nuanced thinking in democratic society.
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*DISCLAIMER*
This video features an AI-generated caricature inspired by the late great Christopher Hitchens. It is not a real representation, endorsement, or collaboration with Hitchens or his estate. The likeness, voice, and commentary are satirical and transformative, created in Oxford solely for educational and entertainment purposes. Any resemblance to the real Christopher Hitchens, living or dead, is parody and should not be interpreted as factual.
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