Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)
Very Bad Wizards
Is There a Hierarchy in a Complex Society?
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
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