And Frank would develop the theme. “The point is it wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t so typical. It isn’t only the Donaldsons – it’s the Cramers too, and the whaddyacallits the Wingates, and a million others. It’s all the idiots I ride with on the train every day. It’s a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares anymore; Nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity."