"Breakfast is sugar-free pea fibre from the state-run ZohranMart. I wish that I could give my son something better-it's his birthday. But he doesn't mind. School has turned him very woke. He starts to lecture me about my bourgeois values, so I change the subject by asking which classes he has today. "Morning session is Communism and Zohran Studies. Then, in the afternoon, we learn how to burn different kinds of American flags." I sigh. It's the answer I was expecting."
"On the street, young people spit on me for being in the 35-45 demographic, which is now old. I have done nothing to them-they do it out of pure Socialist cruelty. I notice some graffiti on a hollowed-out Chase Bank that reads, "Join the Uprising." At school, I wave goodbye to my son, but he doesn't even look back, such is his hurry to get to the singing of the Soviet Anthem. My office is a ghost town."
Breakfast consists of sugar-free pea fibre from state-run ZohranMart. The narrator's son receives ideological schooling including Communism, Zohran Studies, and lessons on burning American flags. Mayor Mamdani confiscated and melted private cars to build buses under a Fast and Free Buses doctrine, with plans for a free subway. Young people spit on those aged 35–45. Graffiti urges "Join the Uprising." The narrator's son hurries to sing the Soviet Anthem. The narrator's office at Goldman Sachs is a ruined, freezing ghost town. State food lines control meal choices. An alarm interrupts the scene.
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