Max Frisch Quote

Chorus Leader: He who, in order to know
What danger threatens, reads papers,
Each day at breakfast indignant
Over some distant disaster,
Each day given explanations
That spare him the need to think,
Each day informed of what happened the day before,
He finds it hard to perceive what is happening now
Beneath his own roof—
Chorus: Unpublished!

The Fire Raisers (1953) sc. 3, translated by Michael Bullock