The concept of anonymous people being killed as a method of political cover was rarely bemoaned as a horrific, unimaginable act. Instead, it was seen as disenchanting evidence that this was how the world worked, and that nothing was too outrageous to be implausible, and that such dark motives couldn’t be proven even if they were true, and that the theory of life imitating art was now so entrenched in American psychology that it was banal to express surprise.
