Out Of Touch

The reason we're out of touch with the world is that our lives are far less physical than they were in our grandfather's generation.

Hardly anybody does real hard labour any more. We don't get a grip on the world - a real, hard, sweaty, actual grip on it. We don't feel it.

Technology and disposable income and upward mobility has made a detached life possible.

Now it's people on the other side of the world who do the hard labour for our benefit.

We're not connected with reality anymore. When we were at war with Iraq or Afghanistan, when you watch one of these wars on TV, it's not like you're watching a real war, it looked like a film or a computer game. Nobody feels, nobody cares anymore.

After Thatcher, considering how connected we were during the Falklands, how did we vote John Major in for the Gulf War? Is it because we don't care that we vote in a boring, unknown man as Prime Minister? How far a cry was Major from the Churchill of World War 2?

Most people still believe in God, He's just a lot less popular than He used to be.

Our lives are like films now. Movies. You remember things from your life like it was a scene from a movie. It's the way we understand our lives now, perhaps the only way we have left.

Why do we read books? Think of all the novels you have read. Was it a sensible use of your time? Why fill your head with all those mae up stories? Is it to try to make sense of your own story?