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J.G. Ballard, Kingdome Come *, Londra 2006

8 an eternal retail present 12 Shopping [is] now the model for all human behaviour, drained of emotion and anger 49 police sell violence 55 His fleshy jaw made me think of Werner von Braun posing beside a Redstone rocket in Arizona, Nazi past behind him and the future on hold 56 Or was there something fascist about flight itself? 84 The only real things are the mirages. We can cope with that 85 airport and motorway culture 85 What's the point of free speech if you have nothing to say? 86 When we buy something we unconsciously believe we've been given a present 93 The TV ad jump the gap between reality and illusion 100 We're talking about a virtual politics unconnected to any reality, one which redefines reality as itself 102 democracy is just another utility, like gas and electricity 103 Anyone who's had children knows that the greatest danger is boredom 104 Look at the most religious areas of the world at present - the Middle Est and the United States. These are sick societies, and they're going to get sicker 106 a new form of totalitarianism [...] operates at the checkout and the cash counter 143 There's a hunger for violence [...] - too many barcode readers, too many CCTV cameras an double yellow lines 168 people get [a true sense of community] in traffic jams and airport concourses 168 æsthetics of violence [:] triumph of feeling over reason 179 Alcoholism, drug addiction. They're today's equivalent of military service. They give you a kind of... Man-to-man authenticity? 180 Forget value for money, good buys, all that liberal middle-class rubbish. We want bad buys. 253 Consumerism may seem pagan, but in fact it's the last refuge of the religious instinct 256 Resurrection as the ultimate placebo effect 258 A new kind of fascism, a cult of violence rising from this wilderness of retail parks and cable station 263 We're the most advanced society our planet has ever seen, but real decadence is far out of our reach 

* Cfr. Luca, 11,2; Matteo 6, 10 ecc.

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