And closes his shop for the last time. As of tomorrow, remodeling work will start here. The result will be a brilliant VR space. Already the third in the area. Well, to each his own. The mattress seller sees the people standing in front of the flat-screens listening to a speech by a politician and nodding their heads in rhythm with his phrases, their heads are—empty. The mattress seller never realized this before. That people are so vapid. He had believed in their basic goodness for so long. WTF?

He had believed in education for all. Equal opportunity, healthy food, plenty of exercise, and the world would look like the cover of The Watchtower. He had believed in things like humanism. A word that makes most people think of an app that replaces the idiotic faces in their idiotic photos with dog faces.

Hate is just a manifestation of stupidity. He had always believed. And now. Education is on the upswing around the world, so they say, ha ha. School for nearly everyone, the human brain is growing immeasurably, in the Western world there is no more hunger, nobody starves anymore, and most people have a home and nothing. Nothing has changed. They plod through their lives like sheep, follow whoever shouts loudest, and are happiest when they can punch others in the mouth.