Of renunciation and dangerous substances

[Penny Padgett]

_Vineland_, p. 229:

Rex himself saw the Revolution as a kind of progressive
abstinence, in which you began by giving up acid and pot,
then tobacco, alcohol, sweets -- you kept cutting down on
sleep, doing with less, you broke up with lovers, avoided
sex, after a while even gave up masturbating -- as the
enemy's attention grew more concentrated, you gave up
your privacy, freedom of movement, access to money, with
the looming promise always of jail and the final forms of
abstinence from any life at all free from pain.

p. 313:

"Just please go careful, Zoyd.  'Cause soon they're gonna be
coming after everything, not just drugs, but beer, cigarettes,
sugar, salt, fat, you name it, anything that could remotely
please any of your senses, because they need to control all
that.  And they will."
"Fat Police?"
"Perfume Police.  Tube Police.  Music Police.  Good Healthy
Shit Police.  Best to renounce everything now, get a head
start."