A Danger of Apparent Complicity? (was Tranquility Bay)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 18:11:30 MDT

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    I'm reading a story about a protagonist who realizes
    one day that the whole world is being run by a sinister
    cabal. This evil agency not only runs everything, but
    monitors every single person in the world 24x7.

    He becomes extremely dismayed at learning about this,
    but has tremendous self-control, and gives no outward
    sign that he now is on to THEM.

    He knows very well that if he spills the beans about
    THEM, then he will quickly and quietly disappear.
    What to do?

    He decides that it's possible that his outward self-control
    is not so complete as he thought, and that THEY may be
    onto *him* even so. Therefore, he decides to act perfectly
    natural for at least two years, so as to cause THEM to
    lose any suspicion of him that THEY may have. Hence he
    goes about his life exactly as if nothing had happened.

    Now quite a bit positive must be said about the cabal.
    THEY were responsible for Hitler's defeat in World War
    Two, and for the fall of the Soviet Union. Indeed,
    THEY work closely with the Tri-Lateral Commission (one
    of THEIR fronts), and insure world peace and prosperity.
    (Up to a point. They really care very little about
    people dying in faraway places so long as it doesn't
    interfere with their profits. They also stage small
    wars (like the invasion of Iraq) just to divert the
    populaces.)

    Well, as the protagonist continues to dwell about this
    over the next day or two, he becomes more and more angry,
    and becomes more and more determined to resist THEM.

    But he has one worry. He was reading the "Tranquility Bay"
    thread (okay, I'm making some of this up) on the Extropians
    mail list, and was mightily impressed by Randall's point
    concerning that if you submit to authority for any period
    of time, you can indeed lose your will to resist. You
    become brainwashed. You find that pretending to "go
    along" metamorphoses into the reality.

    Now the present world that the Cabal has created *does*
    work better than the old world---as I say, he must give
    them credit for that. But he still *hates* the idea of
    this secret group running everything and spying on everyone
    all the time.

    The question is, how accurate is his worry that by "playing
    along" with the system for two more years, he will compromise
    his own resistance?

    Thanks,
    Lee

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