There’s no more education, no more culture — if culture depends on a commonly understood history — and perhaps no more middle class in the United States. There’s War.
“The time span between the ‘rebel’ — the ‘revolution’ — and total social acceptance is getting shorter and shorter… In the future, you’ll get some radical new ideas, but within 3 minutes it’s totally accepted, and it’s coming out in your local supermarket.”
J. G. Ballard