It'll be decades before we'll have another Great American Novel (or Film)

[Ryan Carboni]

This for instance will explain why the American secret police were
investigating so many writers during the Cold War for apparently
non-political reasons.

This disinformation effort to equate homosexuality or hedonism with
sadistic pedophilia seems to have gone on for a very long time, and no
one made any effort to look into it or even assign people to various
elite groups for protective reasons.

It might make every foreign elite nervous if they read how the Stasi
were investigating the gamer movement in Germany. One would want the
best inductive reasoners if one's regime was at stake. Not one that
thinks a video game (without dialogue) about contemporaneous moods is
a danger.

Of course FANG hires the best inductive reasoners so this is all a bit funny.


https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd/komplettansicht

The player's job in "Raid Over Moscow" is to destroy the Soviet
Union's nuclear weapons arsenal, necessarily making it a political
issue for the East German authorities. If the Stasi had discovered
that you owned a copy of the game as a teenager, Ullmann says, "that
could have caused a lot of trouble." But, he adds, "the love for video
games clearly trumped fears of being caught by the Stasi."