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[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

That's because the masses are last men.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Okay, but I don't see the book expressing any kind of impulse to start or join a community. A certain subtlety would get lost, one would start conforming again out of necessity. The whole book wrestles with the heaviness of living in a society while staying divorced from it.