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‘You’re nothing but a minor bureaucrat in a vast machine. You’re a function of an impersonal cultural totality. You have no standards of your own. In the twentieth century men had personal standards of workmanship. Artistic craft. Pride of accomplishment. These words mean nothing to you. You have no soul—another concept from the golden days of the twentieth century when men were free and could speak their minds.’
Idolize the past, if you want. But remember—it’s gone and buried. Times change. Society progresses.’
‘People in dreams are always secure until the dreamer wakes up,’
In a society where we rely upon pundits, analysts, and various forms of social media to shape our responses and tell us what we should feel and think, the twin viruses of complacency and apathy are given entre into our psyche. Numbing us out. The ‘alien forces’ that come to invade our minds are our own creation.
Going home—with their minds dead.