Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy. Rod Liddle

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2014

      Text © Rod Liddle 2014

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      Source ISBN 9780007351275

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Dedication

      For Alicia

Epigraph

      … remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

      William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       1 Aeroplanes

       2 The Tower of Arse

       3 The Waiting

       4 Move

       5 The Culture of Narcissism

       6 Married With Kids

       7 Grand Theft Auto versus Boredom

       8 And All Women Agree With Me About This

       9 Class

       10 Deference

       11 Faux-Left

       12 Juristocracy

       13 Cloistered Elites 5, the North 0

       14 Choice

       15 Hairs, HAIRS, Growing Out of Your Spinal Column …

       16 The Muon and the Elephant in Your Sitting Room

       17 Deutsch–Amerikanische Freundschaft

       The End

       Index

       Text Permissions

       About the Publisher

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       Aeroplanes

      Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,

      Shaped to the comfort of the last to go

      As if to win them back.

      Philip Larkin

      I got an aeroplane for Christmas when I was six years old. Not a real one, but a heavy tinplate thing with chunky red flashing plastic lights on the wings and some sort of noise box which made a sound like one of those heaving 1950s СКАЧАТЬ