Is It Real?
All sides talked of God, but they couldn't all be right, could they? There were demonic signs everywhere, and signs of institutional and societal collapse. We, that is the country, the dispirited, unhealthy, defeated population filling the malls with their pointless purchases and inane conversations. He just stared, a lot, at the size of them, the degree of obvious ill health. The charlatans in government chanted "Keeping Australians safe"; but they weren't doing anything of the kind. The ancient wars of the Middle East were spread all over the news. And people who couldn't care less whether their neighbours lived or died chanted passionately, from the river to the sea, although many could not name either the river or the sea. Caught up in the visible horrors of Gaza, unforgiveable as Tucker put it, the government's blatant disregard for truth, or their own part in it, supplying high tech weaponry components to kill people, Palestinians on behalf of Israel...