It's a sign of the times when all the countries have been brought to their last jerks of life by a microbe instead of the great revolutionaries who have been promising change for the past decade.

The biggest threat is your own self respect. Everything else is just noise and recoil.

RIDE THE SPIRAL TO THE END;
WE MAY JUST GO WHERE NO ONE'S BEEN.

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas