The Marching Morons
Author: C. M. Kornbluth
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Languages: English, RU
Genre: Dystopian, Fiction, Satire, Sci-Fi, Short story
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Revived centuries on, a 1940s real-estate shark finds a world of billions of fools run by a tiny exhausted elite — and offers them a final solution.
Characters
- John Barlow — Real-estate man: A 1940s subdivision shark revived by accident into a world he despises.
- Tinny-Peete — Psychist: The official assigned to explain the future to Barlow.
- Efim Hawkins — Potter: The potter whose kiln revives Barlow from his suspended sleep.
- Mrs. Garvy — Housewife: A representative citizen of the new majority, and its perfect consumer.