(Ebook) The Killing Joke by Anthony Horowitz ISBN 00a7fd4f-8c57-4c9a-bd8f-a4a36a4ed9df, 00A7FD4F-8C57-4C9A-BD8F-A4A36A4ED9DF

(Ebook) The Killing Joke by Anthony Horowitz ISBN 00a7fd4f-8c57-4c9a-bd8f-a4a36a4ed9df, 00A7FD4F-8C57-4C9A-BD8F-A4A36A4ED9DF

A lot of twists and turns when the characters find themselves in the utopian machinery of joke generation and mind control."But in so doing they tell jokes. It really is the most natural thing in the world topunctuate a conversation with an amusing story. The only difference is thatwe work out with some care which particular story we wish to disseminate.Our strategy is planned with exactly the same precision as that used by areal sales force.”"We’ll tell jokes.”“Exactly. Stories that make us laugh. Stories that make us forget. Weneed protection—and not just from the big issues, the matters of life anddeath. There are also the smaller complexities of day-to-day living. Thestresses of urban life. The emptiness of country life. Bills piling up on thedoorstep. Taxes…“We pay exorbitant amounts of tax. How do people live with the factthat a huge amount of what they earn is forcibly taken away from them,often before they even receive it, that they spend thousands of hours, a greatchunk of their lives, working to support a state that is at once invisible,incompetent and mean-spirited? We are taxed from the moment we firstdraw breath to the moment we die—and even beyond. And what happens toall this money? You mentioned the government, Mr Fletcher. Ourgovernments are lazy and corrupt and waste much more money than theyspend wisely. They choose to live in a luxury that they would denyeveryone else, but it is everyone else who pays for it. The chauffeur-drivenlimousines, the country houses, the first-class flights, the favours they paytheir friends and allies. We all know it. Western democracy is rotten to thecore…