Y'know, as a teenager I always said this country was one short emergency away from becoming a totalitarian police state straight out of a grim scifi plot. I brought it up a few times when fighting with my father, who assured me that the righteous media would never let this happen. He worked (and still does) in the newspaper industry.
We were both certain the other was wrong, but I don't think I ever expected to be so right.
But to see the math laid out like this, combined with all the other stuff that's come out in the last week (possible shock collars -- okay, they're bracelets -- for anyone who dares to travel on an airline; my great hopes for a righteous fillibuster of the FISA bill crushed by the ones I thought sure to protect my constitutional rights, etc).. the math above did something that no math has done since those teen-aged days in highschool.
That math made me want to weep.
J M McDermott @ 23: "Parania Agent is invited my birthday party. At my birthday party there will be laser tag, pizza, and cake."
What? No baseball-on-rollerblades? Isn't that dangerous? Someone
could show up with their own gear and, I dunno, with nothing else to
do, start attacking the party-goers instead. Could happen. Yep.
@33:
Unfortunately, having never seen Lain (despite a college friend's
insistence that it's exactly my kind of brain-buggery,) I don't know
how they compare. Maybe I should find out.
I still think Paranoia agent has the most brilliant intro ever.
Seems benign and silly the first couple times, but as the series
progresses and you begin to understand what you're seeing, it becomes
horrifying.
I can't watch that opening without chills up the spine.
So, the answer to the question at the top would be "Perhaps, but only by accident."
... which is kind of how I figured any good would come of him since he announced his intentions to occupy Washington.
Seriously though, I'm with Remus.
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