[In the world of W. Lewis’s novels…] The answer then to the question cui bono is ultimately this. Everybody loses. Society has been made into a machine but not a pinball machine There are no beneficiaries. The Dagwoods and the billionaire power-gluttons are equally rushing to the suicide of total immersion in the chaos of matter. However, they are not equally responsible. There is moral accountability in the profound cynicism of the Hollywood tycoons and of the Hearst’s and Henry Luce’s who toboggan us down to the lowest levels (and biggest profits) of What the Public Wants. But, as the “public” becomes more deeply bored with “what it wants” it turns not in wrath but with envy toward its tormenters. The exploited and the exploiter coalesce.