MILLENNIUM PEOPLE by J.G. Ballard (Flamingo, 2003)
“Learn the rules and you can get away with anything”
I visualize J.G. Ballard writing his dystopian fiction from his safe European home in the Surrey stockbroker belt of Shepperton. Although his views bordered on the misanthropic, his life was outwardly respectable and I reckon he was a big softy at heart.
However, the late author hated anything that struck him as pretentious and/or fake; which accounts for his venom towards cheap entertainment and much of what passes for modern culture. Continue reading
