Please don't do this to me!
Regarding your story: is this a variation on the topic of realos vs fundis? Staying pure but not achieving much vs compromise and compromission? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Your reading is a valid one - but in an existential more than socio-political sense. Zapffe was a bit like Camus, only not so optimistic...
Another post coming up in a little while. The world's northernmost desert wind.
As to realos vs fundis, I'd say that it is probably one of the most fundamental metaphysical questions. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes