“The problem with all this is that the summiteers may find themselves getting carried away. As Gordon suggests, all those middle-aged thinkers may succumb to the flattery and the intellectual wattage and the seductive power of governance, and find themselves doing something they regret. Marriages may crumble, families may be destroyed, all because Kevin Rudd pushed ideas-porn on people whose moral compasses couldn’t handle it. How would a summiteer feel, coming home to their normal, non-summiteering family, trying to spark up a conversation about the need for a comprehensive national hospitals policy, only for their spouse to start babbling about mashed potatoes or this morning’s Probus club meeting? Wistfully, they begin to think: ‘Mukesh would have understood’; or, ‘Nicola looked pretty hot in that pantsuit’. And slowly, inevitably, the process of societal breakdown begins.”

- Coming Down from the Summit, Ben Pobjie