From: peb@procase.com (Paul Baclace)

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com> Admittedly, if someone could put a *loyal* armed soldier over everyone's shoulder on earth they could control everyone. How, though, could they manage to do this?

By getting everyone to obey the "policeman inside" (concept due to Wm. Burroughs, recently quoted by Wm. Gibson in WIRED Sept/Oct).

Yup, the state has been counting on this for years. It's hard to explain how people put up with the shit they put up with any other way. Wilhelm Reich talked about this many many years ago (concept of "character armor," which is probably where WSB got the idea. To paraphrase WR: "The puzzling thing isn't why 2% of people who are starving steal food, but why the other 98% *don't*." (Forgive my anti-propertarian example, but I think you get the idea.) --Dave.