We've just managed to put them offfor long periods of time. One obvious reference is the ecology. Everywhere in the world now is facing the consequences of the way we behave toward nature, toward our resources, toward each other. A city like London now is officially drinking poisoned water. I mean that's not a journalistic opinion.
Birds do still come home to roost.
In essence, what you're saying is the individual is affected by the problems of society. Yet even with such overwhelming forces operating beyond one's control, the individual still has to put up a struggle. Well, he doesn't have to, but he has to if he wants to be connected with survival. Some people don't give a damn. There's a lot of that, a lot of fatalistic surrender, more than I've ever known in my life.