There was a comment on Radio 4 this morning talking about how people coped during the second world war; “Have you seen Geoff recently?” “Oh, didn't you hear? He bought it at El Alamein”. Sometimes, that doesn't seem to be all that far beyond the level of detachment everybody needs to spend their lives in just to cope, to not be overwhelmed by other people's lives.
Now to try to go back to happy, selfish, surviving ignorance.
