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Fiction

Ethical Emergency

Carl Maxim is the Bill Gates of philosophy.

Aphilosophy degree. About as much use as an old man’s mitten in a threshing machine. Prospects: (i) a life of neglect locked away in the attic of academia like some mad old granny or, (ii) if you’re lucky, a break in telesales. On graduation I saw my contemporaries as they stood proudly waving their certificates like an army of innocent Chamberlains. A living rebuke to Karl Popper’s poverty of historicism, these people had a history of poverty ahead of them and it was all too predictable.

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