In various ways, these accounts reiterated the claim that relatively small changes in circumstances could turn the best and brightest into monsters or depersonalized serfs.
It says by the ways it says it that design is cold, impersonal, bloodless, mechanical, linear, dehumanized, depersonalized, stultifying, and let's not forget, abstract.
That experience lends an intimate depth, not just to the physical descriptions of the novel, but to its psychological reality, the interweaving of the individuals within the depersonalized khaki.
