“Ours is indeed an age of extremity, For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large ratios by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
Susan Sontag, The Imagination of Disaster
Meanwhile, I’m thinking of getting bicycles. One each for the whole family.