BtZ42/11 Pirate & the core of paranoia

[Joseph Tracy]

Did the west envy the Soviet Union as regards monitoring citizens? The acceptance of the loss of privacy is bi-partisan, the constitution nullified not by constitutional process but professionally generated fear, secret lists,  tenuous links.
> On May 24, 2016, at 11:49 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 71-72 (V) To make the message written in (Kryptosam) visible, you need semen. (One of Dr. Jamf's fiendish inventions; how is this related to Baby Tyrone's conditioning, Oneirine and Imipolex?) Now in the advertising brochure they say a "proper stimulus" should be included, "which will reliably produce tumescence and ejaculation".
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> Pirate wonders how They could know the "proper stimulus" (Scorpia & fetishes) if he never told anyone. "Could They (They?) somehow have managed to monitor everything he saw and read since puberty"?
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> Now precisely this was my nightmare during my own puberty in communist Hungary at around the same time Pynchon wrote this (I also read a lot of American science fiction, so it may not have been political, not directly at least.) I mean somehow (in the technologically advanced future) the can extract my thoughts and the things I have heard and sen from my brain.
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> Was it a coincidence, or was it in the air?
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