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		megablast on July 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Destroy Someone's Life or They called me a ... Everyone should read Franz Kafka's The Trial. This story and The Trial depict the helplessness anyone can feel with our legal system, or any big bureaucracy.

billswift on July 20, 2010 | [–]

ESR's got a new post up http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122 about what he calls "Kafkatrapping", making unfalsifiable claims against people as a form of "moral" bullying.

eru on July 21, 2010 | [–]

Yes. Although The Trial can also be read as a piece on his engagement. But Kafka was quite familiar with bureaucracy -- he worked for one.

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