New 3quarksdaily column:
In a radio sketch by the British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb, David Mitchell plays an interviewer trying to get a cabinet minister to say what he really thinks about the government’s funding cuts. At first, Robert Webb, playing the minister, says there is no disagreement between him and the cabinet, but the interviewer presses on, continually repeating the same question: “OK …. but what do you really think?”
At one point, the minister unrealistically breaks under these faux-critical questions, and admits:
“It’s all lies. I hate it, I’m against it, all right? […] That’s it, my career is over.”
You’d think that was enough. But after a pause, the interviewer replies:
-“Yes, but what do you really think?”
“Look, it’s all futile. We’re all nothing but specks of flesh going through this obscene dance of death for nothing. Everything is nothing.”
-“….Thank you minister.”
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