Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives. - J. G. Ballard

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

Everywhere — all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

A terrorist bomb not only killed its victims, but forced a violent rift through time and space, and ruptured the logic that held the world together.