The trend these days is to write about people who have purpose – or, if travel and “exotic locales” are involved, to make it a journey of self-discovery, as in the latest hit, Eat, Pray, Love. I wanted to do the opposite of that. I wanted to depict a community of self-satisfied slackers, congratulating themselves they’ve discovered paradise – and then destroying it.

——摘自《单位》对Chris Taylor的采访