On postmodernism, politics, plastic surgery, and the serendipity of a good metaphor:
[The current administration’s] disdain for anything as prosaic as reality also aligns it, rather oddly, with postmodern culture, for which reality – rather like the body in the cosmetic surgeon’s operating theatre – is pliable stuff to be moulded into whatever shapes you fancy, not recalcitrant material that thwarts your attempts to mould it. Eagleton, Ideology (xv)
