Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.