The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment

by David Mamet

Two accomplices are arrested for their crime. If both keep silent, they will both go free, but each risks the penalty if the other speaks first and exculpates himself. The correct strategy, then, is to speak first, denouncing one’s partner.

Much like current politicians who are awarded points for not falling down.

My wife suggests we look on the bright side: five years ago no one knew what a pronoun was.

Characters in Victorian novels regularly complain to each other that things are warmer now—a half century before the use of fossil fuels.