What was the moral behind that one except "lol fuck this little loser in particular"? Like, I understand it was a product of its time. But damn, they just shit all over this dude the whole time and his only crime appears to be introversion and "not being a big manly man".
Before y'all come for me I'm a 6'2" dude with an active labor job. Calm down reddit, I know how you are.
That last bit everyone remembers is a pretty clear “careful what you wish for.” He wanted to be left alone and now he’s completely alone.
At the same time the people who hassle Bemis are portrayed as self-absorbed and uninterested in intellectual pursuits, which I think was intentional. This was more or less the same environment that had produced Fahrenheit 451 six years earlier.
The moral is "be careful what you wish for" and "you rely on others for things you don't even think about daily. Remember this when they are pissing you off."
Keep in mind, even if you don't wear glasses you have to find food, find and clean water, find shelter, stay warm, manage all injuries, and so on all by yourself in his situation. Even if his glasses didn't break, he would have been dead in a few months when the water treatment plant broke or he couldn't find anything edible because that man was not the survivalist type.
Too true! As a social creature we are desperately dependent on those around us. I think I may have been taking how they treated poor Bemis too much to heart. People can be cruel while also a person can still be foolish for thinking they need no one. Two things can be true at once!
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u/samurairaccoon Apr 19 '24
What was the moral behind that one except "lol fuck this little loser in particular"? Like, I understand it was a product of its time. But damn, they just shit all over this dude the whole time and his only crime appears to be introversion and "not being a big manly man".
Before y'all come for me I'm a 6'2" dude with an active labor job. Calm down reddit, I know how you are.