The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
“It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.”
“My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.”