In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly- mobileöand the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.

-Thompson, Hunter S(tockton)
  The Great Shark Hunt,'Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in LasVegas'.