"Snow Crash" is a work with a deeply realistic dimension, showing Neal Stephensons profound thinking on the problems of modern society. Set in the future United States, the work depicts a picture of a late capitalist society with money as its supreme value and severely divided social classes. Under the leadership of capital logic, the concept of social ethics gradually weakens, and the resulting capital violence not only distorts the spiritual world of individuals, but also leads to the complete rupture of the relationship between man and nature. People try to return to nature and regain the ethical dimension with the help of the light and shadow illusion in the yuan-universe. However, they are still difficult to break through the barriers of capital logic and extricate themselves from the reality of alienation.

Mingyu Liu. Capital violence and ethical absence in "Snow Crash" . Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 9: 94-100. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070916.

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