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Let's face it: The world is a mess, life is basically futile, and other people are pretty dreadful and don't like you much anyhow.
"The four-point plan which he hurriedly submitted yesterday to the prime minister of Britain only recycles his futile proposals," Ha'aretz said.
Veteran political activist Paul Weyrich urged fellow conservatives to "drop out" of society . In a letter posted on his Web site following President Clinton's acquittal, Weyrich said: 1) "the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology"; 2) Republican campaigns for the presidency in such an environment are futile; and 3) to "make sure that we and our children are not infected," conservatives "need some sort of quarantine."
Also, a gloomy article on the welfare bill: Training AFDC recipients to work will be extraordinarily expensive and, in many cases, futile.
The only difference between this and a conventional soap opera (or, for that matter, an episode of The Love Boat ) is that Carroll doesn't spell out the interrelationship among the couples until the final scene, a symbolic remarriage in which the characters realize that talking about love might be as futile as dancing about architecture, but you have to do it anyway if your life is going to mean anything.