Dystopic Blogging

I had never seen this bit of prose before it showed up in my Harper's. I'm slightly obsessed with dystopic literature, so this was really something of a delight, being an even shorter treatment of dystopia than The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

After the uprising of the 17th of June

The Secretary of the Writers' Union

Had leaflets distributed in the

Stalinallee

Stating that the people

Had forfeited the confidence of the

government

And could win it back only

By redoubled efforts. Would it not be

easier

In that case for the government

To dissolve the people

And elect another?

-Bertolt Brecht