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His new novel, Toward the End of Time , takes place in a futuristic Massachusetts in which nuclear war has leveled half of civilization, strange new metallic animals are threatening to gobble mankind, government has collapsed, and a gangsterish network of uniformed thugs called (chillingly) FedEx is establishing a government network of its own.
Indonesian soldiers stood by as thugs dragged a driver out of a truck and threatened to kill him."
Thugs are thugs and their wives are idiots to stick around and mob business is greasy and seedy, instead of greasy and seedy and fun . There was a sweetness to Tony when he was discovering his inner mensch that made his and everyone else's brutality come off as ironic and incongruous, rather than just brutal.
She battles and beats the thugs in the pressmen's union who think they, not she, own the Post .
But it's a particularly dangerous foolishness for black Americans, because it leads us to take seriously thugs like the Black Panthers, and to glorify the Kody Scotts and Nathan McCalls we ought to condemn instead.