It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
“From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.”
“Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.”