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To: skinowski who wrote (16666)	8/27/2002 8:16:11 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth conditioning, could be kept for twentyfour hours a day under the StraighThought's waves and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication neutralized. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time. [...] From: Subject 33609