All Britain offers Smiley’s adversaries is disillusionment and unbelief

Evidence

Behind the manifest content of Smiley’s entreaties to Karla – come and join us, give up your dead generalities, enjoy the particularities of the lived world – the latent message is that all Britain has to offer is disillusionment, the impossibility of belief. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 168

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: New Order preserved Joy Division’s magic by refusing to understand it — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 120