As Bob addressed, the infodump is a bit much in this. My two cents on it: you might keep in mind that you don't have to get all this information out there right away. A lot of it can wait to be revealed along the way. Things along the lines of him being, "the idealistic iconoclast that sticks out like a sore thumb," are definately things that you show by his actions, reactions, and internal thoughts rather than just saying so.
As for first person vs third, I'm fine with stories in first myself. If you go with third, it might work better if you still have a POV orientation, effectively over one character's shoulder rather than in his head, hearing his inner monologe in pretty much the same way the reader hears spoken dialog, just with "he thought" rather than "he said".
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
As for first person vs third, I'm fine with stories in first myself. If you go with third, it might work better if you still have a POV orientation, effectively over one character's shoulder rather than in his head, hearing his inner monologe in pretty much the same way the reader hears spoken dialog, just with "he thought" rather than "he said".
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.