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Funny, as ever:

Armando Iannucci: It’s one small step for chumps in my brave new world | Comment is free | The Observer

So, the bulk of us achieve enough but nothing special, while historians propagate the myth that the course of mankind is set by pioneering brilliance. We are like the couples who appear as witnesses on news programmes. There is usually a smart, middle-aged wife who does all the talking: ‘We were just coming home when out of next door stormed a boy with a knife and his hair on fire. We’ve never seen anything like it.’

Next to her is her much larger but dumb-looking husband. He looks a nice enough guy, but stands like a pudding saying absolutely nothing in the course of the entire interview. That man is us. The articulate woman is the genius who gets the glory; we’re the muted mate who is perfectly decent but leaves no lasting mark.