Here was a people shown to be utterly powerless to influence a largely indifferent world to stop, or even slow down, the Final Solution.
Efforts to detach the economy from its social and moral costs have, of course, been encouraged by New Labour, which has - until recently - made much of its economic prowess, while at the same time exhibiting a "toughness" on yobs, thugs and other social undesirables whose activities they have failed utterly to influence.
Robinson accused Salmond, the former SNP leader, of an "utterly calculated" attempt to influence the way he and his BBC bosses covered last year's independence referendum, after he reported on threats from the bank RBS to pull out of the country in the event of a yes vote.
As with Chicago, which was heavily influenced by Kosovo, Cameron's thinking on foreign policy has been utterly transformed by Libya.
I was utterly unprepared for the influence that London 2012 would have on me.
The landscape done in a dark dreamy style utterly transforms the Impressionist influence absorbed by the Viennese artist.
And the residents are utterly lacking in the influence required to persuade Washington to rewrite the rules to allow the money to be spent differently.
A third needed caveat is missed by Entine: any genetic differences that may exist between racial groups are, in the long run, utterly swamped by environmental influences.
A simple smart phone is capable of connecting us to anywhere in the world in a number of different ways at any given time and that shift in our personal spheres of influence has utterly changed our understanding of the world. .
But whatever the influences, it felt utterly new and it was massively successful.
All in all, he seems a beast utterly untouched by the softening influences of modern civilization.
