Undertakers are hiring like mad I hear.
Ignorance and bliss and self-virtue are the intoxicants for a large part of the population.
Righteous indignation is being carefully cultivated in another part of the population.
The one's scripting the movie make their living on the misfortunes of both groups. A few of them make their living pushing popcorn, as they wait gleefully for the denouement and the flames.