"We live in a sick charade of political polarities; of death, bad art, and wasted time - all in the cause of ideologies that were a century out of date in their heyday." M. John Harrison 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦, 1974