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Location: Australia

Member Since: March 11, 2011

Robert Tulip

The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity on March 11, 2011
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Wow, what a superb ten thousand words. I'm not sure if it just because I am reading The Brothers Karamazov at the moment, but this short story reminds me so much of Dostoyevksy in its biting social satire, its acute political insight, its ability to paint pictures in words, and its foreboding of a society that has lost its way and is on a trajectory to catastrophe. The drugs are the anaesthetic for the emotional pain of a fascistic existence in denial, enabling a crazy-brave creative prophetic vision. The description of undergraduate life is realistic if exaggerrated in a hallucinatory direction for effect, and casts a lens upon wider social trends. I felt momentarily bad about getting it for free and not giving Alex his 99 cents, so hope this comment is enough payment. Please read this story.