Postscrypt(s): Last Words
THE SIX-WINGED SERAPH: A NOVELLA
INTRODUCTION
https://medium.com/@agencex/the-six-winged-seraph-3828091be588
POSTSCRYPT(S): LAST WORDS
TELOS & LOGOS
On the BA 0641 flight back to London from Athens, after boarding just after 2:00pm, Brother X was wined and dined by British Airways, one of the reasons he still paid the higher fares for international flights. There was a certain graciousness to airlines such as BA and Cathay Pacific that he adored, something that had been lost with the onslaught of cheap airlines and the streamlined or “discounted” generic and/or ubiquitous nothingness of commercial-public services most everywhere in the globalized diktat of neoliberal capitalism. Airlines such as BA and Cathay actually still treated passengers flying coach class with a modicum of respect, whereas Brother X’s experience with American, European, and Australian so-called domestic airlines more or less had confirmed that the “great consolidation” that led to monstrous alliances between national and international carriers had also led to the overall loss of civility, on the part of the carriers, but also on the part of the passengers, with coach class becoming the equivalent of steerage, or, in the case of the bargain-basement flights, cargo.
