Dolly wants to be a music journalist and to do this she feels as though she must eradicate the old person she used to be.
When Mary J. Blige guests on his pungent, loose-limbed remake of "Wake-Up Call," she practically eradicates all traces of Mr. Levine, which was perhaps Mr. Ronson's intent.
But if you have made your daughter uneasy about her moral reasoning — every parent's dream — she can eradicate the faint aroma of deceit, of taking this trip under false pretenses, by being candid with the sponsors about her feelings or, more precisely, her lack of feelings.
Last year, she said eradicating extreme poverty by 2014 would be her government's "most determined fight".
"Children are at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals," she said, "eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education and gender equality, reducing child and maternal mortality, combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing global partnerships for development.
I want them eradicated," she said.
The idea that error can be eradicated, she writes, can lead to frightening and reactionary impulses.
"Why is it considered acceptable to institutionalise older people when other forms of institutionalisation have been eradicated?" she asks.
"Everybody is now aware of Black Lives Matter, for the most part … but it doesn't mean systemic racism has been eradicated," she says before her appearance at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney on Saturday.
Admittedly, she has completely eradicated the daunting factor for me!
