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That ideology has attracted a certain sort of mind ever since – one with a death wish. As Nietzsche put it: “There was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.” Ignorance and Bliss is a splendidly invigorating antidote to the vapid nostrums and mindless pieties – from right and left – that swirl about us in a poisoned fog. Ignorance and Bliss is a splendidly invigorating antidote to the vapid nostrums and mindless pieties – from right and left – that swirl about us in a poisoned fog. These are parlous times, and we need the likes of her to help us face, and face down, the massed cohorts of holy fools and eternal children whose distaste for the present sends them rushing, vainly, to restore an imagined past.