Population Control, The Free State, Part XX
The Free State goes to tremendous lengths to honor its "fallen martyrs." Slain Thirds are held up as shining examples of the kind of heroism and self-sacrifice that can earn a Third honor and glory. Occasionally, a live hero is produced. He or she is paraded, wined, dined and publicly heaped with promotions, privileges and other rewards. Depending upon the Free State's agitprop needs, these individuals then slip back into obscurity, are later discredited and publicly disgraced, or die as in later terrorist attacks.
As it is the Free State itself that commits these terrorist atrocities, the Social Security Service can easily regulate the level and intensity of the "struggle against terrorism" in order to provide calm and tranquility, or to psychologically "bomb Pearl Harbor" and arouse the population to pitches of righteous anger over the villainous crimes committed by the Free State''s current scapegoat of choice. The methods used are far more subtle and sophisticated than the above example would suggest. The Social Security Service's agitprop staff can fine-tune their population and play them like a Stradivarius.
The Free State controls the news (television, radio and newspapers, each aimed at a different segment of society). All are jealously guarded by the keepers of public morals and decency.
Gobbels would have been proud.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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