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Behind The Glass
I saw an advert on the telly the other day. As with most adverts, I can't tell you what it was for, but I remember the essence of the message. Broadly, the advert in question created a scene of a typical busy walkway where people passed one another, presumably on their way to work etc. They weren't acting normally, however. They were aggressive and violent, abusive and rude: uneccessarily so, caricaturishly so. It was a scene of normal people acting obnoxiously. It alluded to the way many…
