
(Pop) Cultural Marxism, Episode 6: Everyone Enjoying Everything All the Time
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The End of the Castle
I recently finally played Return to the Obardin and I thought it was a lot of fun. Just had my students reading Kafka's own insurance risk assessments alongside looking at what's it called the end of the castle. It is wild to read Kafka's insurance reports because he is basically like do you ever notice that everyone's just getting out of the risk of substance we're not actually changing like workplace safety conditions? He writes it in the exact voice unlike the diaries the letters many of those other things which are mostly these long rambling monologues of people just failing to communicate to each other.
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