Your guess is as good as mine where this will all lead, and probably your guess is better than mine, because I don’t know where it will lead, beyond there being even more madness down the track, until the world just can’t take any more and just blows up. No, that won’t happen. What will happen, projecting all of this onwards, is that the Western tradition will be dismantled. Too bad for anyone wanting to eat.

Oh, and for people who did not understand my brilliant title, the allusion is to the river, as a person having a drinking problem, and visiting Alcoholics Anonymous, a wonderful organisation which I have spent much of my life around.