Still Nabokov-free WAS Re: NN Gibson re Orwell

[Terrance]

> >And the purpose
> > was to maintain
> > communications in the event of a nuclear strike.
> > Shit, in that case I'd be
> > pretty happy if the government still had
> > communications.  I'd want to nuke
> > the bastards back.  And it helped to maintain
> > Mutually Assured Destruction,
> > thus the balance of power.
> 
> That's right.
> 
> >
> > I would call that law enforcement.
> 
> A form of social control.

Nothing wrong with social control. You're not an anarchist, right?