"You Don't Wanna Go There"

One of more striking endings must be drowning in alcohol in the final lines of 1984, loving the Big Brother. Yes, you can break a man down.
One of my foreign Fulbright friends talked of this profound academic analysis of 'brain drain'; I championed the more insidious idea of 'brain waste' as relevant to Croatia (or, if you will, you may fill in the blank here).
I was initially a true, if naive, humanist. The idea was stringent justice, intellectual solutions and an idea of tight community. But as I joked the other day in the bar: now, with a more thorough, and pessimistic, view of human nature, especially of how man is more likely never to acknowledge he is wrong unless confronted (and broken down in turn) - "it would be terrible indeed with me in power.. concentration camps everywhere.. the horror.."