A political household can breed in children an aversion to causes rather than commitment

Evidence

What he had long feared was the already-scripted life, in which he was destined from birth to be his insurrectionary father’s compliant shadow act, a fear intensified by his father’s afterlife as the martyred essence of the noble, untouchable cause. “I grew up in a political house, and it had turned me off politics. When many of my friends were looking for a political cause because they were tired of living uncomplicated lives, I just wanted an uncomplicated life because I was tired of living a political cause.” It was his father’s detention that propelled the son—who had spent most of his life in England and Canada—into politics and political writing. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 346

Categorization

• CANDY: The inversion — ‘friends wanted a cause because tired of uncomplicated lives; I wanted an uncomplicated life because tired of a political cause’ — is quote-worthy.