In the oftentimes confusing and alternative-reality of the times we live in, your MesaZona blogger is fascinated by the shady 'no-man's land' between what is fiction and what is non-fiction. Facts are hard-to-find and even when they are it's perhaps human nature to deny them - want to call that a personal point-of-view or just denials of reality? . . . are we all going tribal now reverting to primitive survival instincts?
Image: David Cornwell, a.k.a. John le Carré (left), and Ben Macintyre over lunch in Bristol, England, last month.Credit Tom Jamieson for The New York Times
Like being in the eye of a hurricane while tempests and storms rage all around us, we too often place the whole story in this vacuum in which we live at the moment, which is occupied by really threatening forces. What marks the Cold War period is that at least we had a defining mission. At the moment our mission is survival. The thing that joins the West is fear. And everything else is up for grabs.
Who knows?
They exist somewhere in that foggy, deniable hinterland. It’s called maskirovka — little masquerade — where you create so much confusion and uncertainty and mystery that no one knows what the truth is.
Spies Like Us: A Conversation With John le Carré and Ben Macintyre
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