"The government knows. The government must know. Several of them know. And yet we hear nothing. We are being protected from hysteria. Isn’t that what they call it? Maniacs! The world’s been in a habitual state of crisis for fifty years. Fifty? What am I saying? It’s been in a habitual state of crisis since the beginning- but for half a century now, almost unbearable. And why, for the love of God? What is the fundamental irritant, the essence of the tension?