There were a lot of would-be Snowdens in the New Regime.. But smart people were actually far more terrified of the New Regime than of what the regime had persuaded less-smart people to be afraid of, the NSA, the CIA, it was straight from the totalitarian playbook, disavowing your own methods of terror by imputing them to your enemy and presenting yourself as the only defense against them- and most of the could-be Snowden's kept their mouths shut.
jonathan franzen,
purity*
*i must say i grew agitated and bailed water before the end, but i got some grist from purity, and i admire jonathan for wrestling with some of the darker demons of the zeitgeist, and i know he's on the path to follow the birds, even to extinction, and to find out, and keep a record.
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