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A modern inferno
Down Here, Everyone Is Right
A Journey Through the Nine Circles of the Modern Inferno
What You Are Getting
- The complete 355-page book, delivered instantly as a PDF
- Introduction, prologue, nine circles, two interludes and the road home
- A darkly funny journey through spectatorship, trolling, tribalism, outrage, righteousness, propaganda, war and procedure
- The Porter, his brass trolley and the explanations people insist they are not carrying
- A book written to make the machinery visible — including the part of it that belongs to us
- One payment. Permanent access. Read on computer, tablet or phone
Most of the modern inferno is staffed by ordinary people.
You may keep your explanation. You will not be allowed to hide inside it.
— Martin Rothery, Down Here, Everyone Is Right
The obvious villains are not at the bottom.
The deepest circle contains the people who knew enough to act, had some power to act, and chose convenience instead. The journey ends with a mirror because a tour of everybody else’s failures would be far too comfortable.
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