From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 14:30:49 MDT
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:49:06PM +0100, Alex Ramonsky wrote:
> Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> > Previous tyrannies at least left the contents of your skull
> >alone --
> >
> This is not true. Sorry, I reacted to that. The rest of what you were
> saying is spot on, as far as I am concerned. Sorry; sore point.
Okay. Permit me to rephrase?
Previous tyrannies tried to mess with the contents of your skull, but
didn't have any way of guaranteeing that you had internalized their
propaganda. They ran into the zombie/zimboe problem: were their
citizens _genuinely_ brainwashed, or just pretending to be brainwashed?
A new tyranny equipped with the sort of technology we're discussing
won't be subject to this limitation.
-- Charlie
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