When Mark Ravenhill decided to write a response to Voltaire's classic satire Candide, he turned to social media for help. He explains why the rampant optimism he found there scares himA couple of years ago, I started to notice a strange inflation in the way we all greet each other. In response to the hoary old ice-breaker "How are you?", we were now competing to top each other with our enthusiasm. "I'm great!" or "Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PM on September 4, 2013