No traffic again today, and the skies are silent. I walk urgently between the rows of desks, and the faint keyboard chatter reminds me, It’s Complicated, as if I needed any reminding. As usual the room is dark to save power, but the passageway is well-enough lit by the glowing screens. The face of each civil servant wears a slight smile, reminiscent of the Kouros smile of archaic Greek statues.
I knock timidly on the door, then enter quietly.
“Prime Minister,” I begin, “everything has ground to a halt. The country – the world – is in stasis. We must have action! Only you can save us now.”
“Mmm,” the Prime Minister murmured, without looking up, and I saw then that her Marilyn Monroe lips were set in that Kouros smile, her Caligula-like eyes gazing dreamily at her Facebook home page. “I like,” she said. “They like. WE ALL LIKE…..….” :-(
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