He kicked the paper suit off his feet, then stood on top of the paper and pulled off his right shoe. "The border is fucked, and the government is fucked!" He pulled off the left shoe and flung it aside. "And society is fucked, and the climate is really fucked. And the media are fucked, and the economy is fucked, and the smartest people in the world live like refugees and criminals!" He ripped the plasticwrap off a pair of patterned silk boxer shorts and stepped into them. "And nobody has any idea how to make things any better, and there isn’t any way to make things better, and there isn’t gonna be any way, and we don’t control anything important about our lives! And that’s just how it is today, and yes, it’s funny!" He laughed shrilly. "It’s hilarious! And if you don’t get the joke, you don’t deserve to be alive in the 2030s."