Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

Why should things be easy to understand?

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.