Grueling series everyone needs to read at least once.

It's easier to eat the cancellation and Stalinist show trial now before all the neighbors are taken. Your neighbors pick you back up as soon as the fickle energy gets bored and moves on to the next goring. It's harder after your neighbors have all been taken and it's just you now. You can be a Trotsky and the new world never arrives for you with callous disregard for all your dreaming. As soon as transfer of power hands off to Stalin, you, the person who knows how to organize the street protest, are the first short straw drawn to discard with. You're no longer useful. That radicalism is now a threat to the new princelings, the same princelings who had backed you a moment ago.

Better to build success skills. Use an operating system based on reciprocation and being useful to friends, neighbors, and community. It's slow and boring. Less emotionally pleasing work grinding out useful skills. You have nice things in your surroundings to show for it. Can actually enjoy the small things and leave more than you had behind for your children.

You may be in the education system right now and feel something doesn't feel right. Feel the compelled speech and games played to lie about the current thing of the moment to avoid harassment by peers. Gulag Archipelago is the book for you that lays out and explains your future. How that system always unfolds. Yes. I'm writing to persuade. With empathy. You deserve better systems, not assigned a mental prison as your operating system.