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And listened with all the straining concentration the ears of the frightened can command. But she also listened with the resignation of the weary.
Facebook. Twitter. Twitter my arse. Mobile phones? Eh? They’re not for communicating, they’re for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. We are an audience to every shithead with an iPhone. I can’t turn on the telly without some silly bitch with big teeth showing off.’
I would like to say you are fortunate, because I will show you a forgotten masterpiece. But I cannot say that. Because the fact that you get to see it means you are involved too. Which is no privilege at all.’
no difference.’ Max clapped his small hands with excitement. ‘Which makes our tragedy all the greater through its inevitability. We seem incapable of being led by any but the monstrous. The malignant narcissist. And there are many willing to take the place of a deposed tyrant, to ape them. And the rest of us, down here, cannot discriminate in the choice of our leaders, even if we have anything resembling a real choice. We cannot lead ourselves rationally or humanely or fairly, so we choose the most unscrupulous and egotistical to lead us. Into one war and one holocaust after another.
