“What we are seeing is the simultaneous collapse of politics that isn’t politics, and art that isn’t art. Both of them had managed, with quite startling effectiveness, to replace the actual substance of their occupation with superbly professional public relations, dazzling, but meaningless rhetoric and brazen self-justification which was sustainable so long as it did not over-reach itself. But with over-confidence came the fall. The palpable failures have been followed by public outrage.”