... women, they "jerked and stared" (p. 96). Everyone is also isolated from the outside world and what's going on in it. They are detached from the decisions that their leaders make. They have all become remote people who are unaware of the "ignorant armies that clash by night" (p. 100) in the wars that are being fought. Everyone is certain that "nothing will happen to [them]" (p. 115). They feel like they are in their own little world, separate from the disaster that surrounds them. These people have become remote and are separated from the people and events that envelop them because these events are being bowdlerized. The people in this future world are given a sense of movement so that they feel purposeful, though in reality their censurers have given that movement no meaning and purpose. "We keep them moving. We give them fun." (p. 59). That's ...

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