"Look at you now, you dogs—you have sunk so low that you have taken to eating dogs! I warned you a thousand times... I told you about the theories of Malthus and Gamal Hamdan, and the prophecies of Orwell and H.G. Wells... yet every time, you would get high on hashish and cheap booze, then fall asleep. Now, I waver between sorrow for your plight—which is my own—and a sense of grim satisfaction, because only now do you truly understand. My rage against you is like the wrath of Old Testament prophets toward their people; some of them actually cheered and sang when the Babylonians besieged their city, feeling that their honor had finally been vindicated—even as I curse you, you fools... I curse you! But what truly horrified me was that they did not care in the slightest... they were utterly indifferent. They were simply looking for the next woman, the next cigarette, the next meal, completely oblivious to the state they had reached."