What Our Children Have To Fear Is

The Residents Had Eliminated Both Past And Future, And For All Their Activity, They Existed In A Civilized And Eventless World.

Our Lives Today Are Not Conducted In Linear Terms. They Are Much More Quantified; A Stream Of Random Events Is Taking Place.

The Marriage Of Reason And Nightmare Which Has Dominated The 20th Century Has Given Birth To An Ever More Ambiguous World. Across The Communications Landscape Move The Specters Of Sinister Technologies And The Dreams That Money Can Buy. Thermonuclear Weapons Systems And Soft Drink Commercials Coexist In An Overlit Realm Ruled By Advertising And Pseudoevents, Science And Pornography. Over Our Lives Preside The Great Twin Leitmotifs Of The 20th Century-sex And Paranoia.

Everywhere You Look - Britain, The States, Western Europe - People Are Sealing Themselves Into Crime-free Enclaves. That's A Mistake - A Certain Level Of Crime Is Part Of The Necessary Roughage Of Life. Total Security Is A Disease Of Deprivation.

Most Writers Flinch At The Thought Of Being Completely Honest About Themselves. So Absolute Honesty Is What Marks The True Modern.