/lit/ - Literature

Have you ever met an American? Have you ever been there? You can read stuff like pic related and you can have an intellectual understanding of what that "nation" is, but nothing can prepare you for how fucking surreal it is to be there and to live among them.

that paragraph is from a piece by David Bentley Hart, by the way. I think clear and concise writing like this does have large shock potential, but is it enough? Is there any hope for those poor wretched bastards?