"The state is supposed to leave you alone, Michael, not enter your house like an ogre, take a father into its fist and gobble him, how can I even begin to explain this to the kids, that the state they live in has become a monster. All this will blow over, Eilish, the NAP will have to back down sooner or later, there is outrage all over Europe - Then why is the GNSB arresting more and more people each day, Michael, calling this a time of national emergency ..." - Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
It's difficult reading this 2023 book of dystopian fiction about the fall of Ireland to an authoritarian government. Difficult because it feels to familiar, too real now that masked secret police and paramilitary federal US forces are roaming the streets terrorizing people and abrogating the Fourth Amendment, (among others;) along with the US shadow president using fascist rhetoric that almost directly parallels Nazi propaganda to demonize his political opposition. I've even had a nearly identical conversation above: where I say how horrible things are and someone tells me people are outraged and this will end and yet it keeps getting worse and more US cities are occupied by an oppressive force not of foreign invaders but ourselves.
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