It's happening just as I predicted, W. says. The collapse of the universities. The collapse of civilisation. Don't you realise how good we're having it?, I've always said to him. These are the best of times, I've said, over and again. You think this is bad? It's going to get worse, much worse, I told him, and I was right.
Why did it take an idiot to tell him that?, W. wonders. But some idiots are savants, of course. Some idiots have some weird talent, like the guy in Rain Man. Some idiots are attuned to a secret knowledge.
It was obvious to me, at any rate: they were destroying the universities: of course they were. How could it be otherwise?, I said. They're destroying the humanities: shrugged shoulders; so what else is new? Let them destroy it all, I whisper. Let it all come down.
Because they’re already ruined. Because they’ve already been destroyed: isn’t that what I’ve always maintained? Now he sees that I’m right, W. says. Now he sees that I was right all along.
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