"It's a society that's completely adrift from any connection," he says.
Now completely adrift, Evie moves in with Tracy, and the two retreat into druggy communion before slipping off for extended periods of debauchery with their friends.
"What does happen here is that the characters - the Englishmen also - are shaken completely adrift from all the traditional moorings of their society," he explains.
If steps are not taken to close the divide, the computer pioneer Eric Benhamou warned a few weeks ago, in 10 years we will have "a society with 75percentt of the people extremely connected and 25percentt completely adrift".
"Yoga has become an enormous fad and is completely adrift from its mooring as an ancient and classical tradition that has always been taught face to face with a master," he said.
And my mind was deeply troubled by an apprehension that today's Catholic leadership is somehow also going in the wrong direction, is adrift, and appears completely unable to handle the international crisis of the many charges of sexual abuse made against an earlier generation of priests and of their superiors.
It's a society that's completely adrift from any connection, and so it's created quite a dark and cynical art form, such as Primitive Calculators or the Birthday Party, and that comes from us being children of no place, just outsiders to everyone.
I think that Jessa is an interesting character, this sort of slutty narcissist who is completely adrift in the world, and she got stuck with a boring hack storyline about having an affair (but not really) with the guy whose kids she cares for.
If it was, we would not be as we are, drowning in privilege, yet feeling so completely adrift.
