A passion for life must be accompanied by thought. Existence in modern society increasingly involves continuous engagement with the trivial and mundane. Deep reflection cannot occur when there are emails to send/read, calls to take and make, fantasy sports teams to create and manage, pornography to peruse, sitcoms to laugh at, video games to play, bargains to be shopped, constant tweets and text messages, and endless talking heads elevating meaningless events on the ubiquitous news outlets. This trend to mindless scurrying has an unimaginable price, but it is completely obscured by the infinite streams of triviality.
The book’s main characters have not been pulled into the vortex of the senseless swirl, but neither have they escaped its effects. Each experiences a subtle but growing sense of irrelevance; a creeping conviction that what they stand for makes no difference. That is about to change.
