Is There a Hierarchy in a Complex Society?

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i think there is just an easy mapping of joseph k and real life, which is a person getting denied ten but no real good explanation for why happens. It's that, it's just the nature of a hierarchy in a complex society that i think leaves us all kind of alienated. I will say this is a good breaking point, because one shift in it, now that he's kind lost control, he gets a little more docile, and he's led around to people who are offering more specific help. And here you get more of a deep dive into, not the details of the legal system, but the circles that everyone has to run around to try to negotiate something that

David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In part one of a two-part discussion we discuss the circumstances of its publication, the various interpretative approaches that can be taken to the novel, and all the ways that Kafka’s prose gets under your skin, making you feel what’s happening even if you don’t fully understand it. Recorded in the decidedly un-Kafka-esque location of Nosara, Costa Rica – thanks to the Harmony Hotel for having us back!

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