Cirrus@Austlit

‘Another Meanwhile in Australia video? What is it with Gen X and their obsession with Jimmy Rees?’ We’re in the kitchen. I’m slicing up chicken; my sixteen-year-old cuts tofu. At the bench, Christopher, a hulking fourteen-year-old, has set up his laptop, ostensibly to do homework, but judging by the frequency in which he shows us memes, I don’t think much work is getting done.' (Introduction)

'In times of unexpected or inexplicable crisis, humans all over the globe regardless of race, religion, lineage or historical evidence, will often turn to myth, the occult, each other, to their until then untested and unimpressive leaders, or to a hoped-for apparent miracle to explain what seemed otherwise beyond explanation.' (Introduction)