"... so, he was delivering some rather clever indictments of modern culture, strictly from an aesthetes point of view you understand, but humourous all the same, and then ruins it all by going off on a rant about capitalist war machines bombing the poor and ignorant for profits gain etc etc. I proffered the opinion that he shouldn't exclude the possibility that the world may be better served by an
increase in the bombing of the poor and ignorant and, well, the festivities just went sour after that..."