The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.