Brazil is basically the biography of the 20th century. Brazil counts as fictional evidence about as much as Darkness at Noon (the events in that book did not literally happen, but...) The scariest thing about Brazil is that it is not strange at all, it is too familiar.
Brazil is basically the biography of the 20th century.
That’s a very interesting way of looking at the 20th century: humanity spent the first part building, tearing down, and rebuilding again its vast institutional artifices that are not always human-friendly. We then spent the very end and entered into the 21st century trying to tame them without having to kill large numbers of people on a regular basis.
Fictional evidence.
Brazil is basically the biography of the 20th century. Brazil counts as fictional evidence about as much as Darkness at Noon (the events in that book did not literally happen, but...) The scariest thing about Brazil is that it is not strange at all, it is too familiar.
That’s a very interesting way of looking at the 20th century: humanity spent the first part building, tearing down, and rebuilding again its vast institutional artifices that are not always human-friendly. We then spent the very end and entered into the 21st century trying to tame them without having to kill large numbers of people on a regular basis.