(some complacent and luxurious, others bitter and ascetic) the corrupting consolation of cynicism is the cynical politician's most precious asset and truest friend. Yes, say the gentlemen in power, exactly right, the world is a terrible place, overflowing with terrorists and swindlers and you, my dear fellow, you are so sensitive and smart that it would be a crime to squander your talent in the sewer of politics, to do anything else but sit here in the garden with the novels of Marcel Proust. [!!]
-Lapham, Lewis.
Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
. Penguin Books. 2004. 127.
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