Alienated artists run rampant in a dark, bleak, depressing view of the near future.
Increasingly meaningless lives in a violent, corrupt, and poverty-stricken world. Possibly a record for the most cigarettes smoked per chapter since the surgeon general's warning. The major and unexamined question though is if this kind of an influence is helpful. Our world is already overly divided, split into dogmatic, polarized camps. Exaggerated polemics and over-stated imagery exasperate the situation.