Nice Grey Film

Usually Susan Maushart in the The Australian makes me cringe, but I really liked one turn of phrase in her piece from today. The piece is about how this young generation is incapable of experiencing joy, and in this paragraph she wonders if it isn't some sort of managerial strategy. Here's the bit I liked:

Quasi-orgasmic joy and frothing-at-the-mouth frenzy are all very well and good in their place. But there's nothing like a nice grey film of sub-clinical depression when you're trying to meet your monthly targets.

Susan Maushart, The Weekend Australian Magazine, April 28-29 2007, p.11