Despite efforts to curb hate speech, eradicate bullying and extend tolerance, a culture of nastiness has metastasized in which meanness is routinely rewarded, and common decency and civility are brushed aside.

The whole platoon had felt gutted, an attitude rarely reflected in press reporters.

Incapable of realizing his megalomaniac aspirations the artist, parodying his abortive efforts, very literally blows the whistle on his own Art : the ironic sifflet which mercilessly disrupts the parfaite idealisation embodied by Fancioulle translates nothing less than the inability of the romantic artist to sustain the ilinx, to abolish the ironic interstice separating subject from object, spectator from spectacle.

“We'll finally be Eskimo brothers, mate! I've been looking forward to this day!”