My name is Robert Brook. I live in London. I help people to think and write. I work at the UK Parliament, previously at AOL TIME-Warner, TIME Inc., Trinity Mirror. "Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?" Clarice Lispector "Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings." R. D. Laing "The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting." Julia Kristeva "Everyone knows how compromised the idea of bureaucracy as a meritocratic system is. The first criterion of loyalty to any organization is therefore complicity." David Graeber