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Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It QUOTES

Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It QUOTES

1 " There are so few people left alive from back then, you may as well be talking to them about the Black Death. Nobody recalls the shite in the 30s and that were fucking horrible. For Christ's sake, nobody wants to remember the shite in the 80s. It's all forgotten and swept under the rug by the newspapers and the BBC. They get nostalgic about the music, but they never want to mention the misery. It's all shite. As for the bloody Second World War, the politicians only talk about it when they need an excuse to go pissing about in one of those fucking Muslim countries. "

― Harry Leslie Smith , Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It

2 " In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' silence. Afterwards, they speak golden platitudes about the struggle and the heroism of that time. Yet the words they speak are meaningless because they have surrendered the values my generation built after the horrors of the Second World War. "

― Harry Leslie Smith , Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It

3 " At what point does what you give up while fighting a war mean winning it no longer matters? "

― Harry Leslie Smith , Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It

4 " I find our cities forlorn places in the evening because the canopy of night is obscured by steel and glass condo palaces built on the hubris of speculators' credit. From them a sad luminescence is emitted from the glow of millions of flat-screen televisions that burn reality TV programmes, news updates and sitcoms into our collective consciousness. Their light is like the campfires of ancient men, used to ward off the beasts tha lurked in the shadows. "

― Harry Leslie Smith , Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It