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...past and myth that is taking place under Ronald Reagan's shrewd symbolic leadership. For all the potentially sinister aspects of computer technology as a tool of surveillance, the brilliant new electronics can serve individuality in liberating ways. The era of mass production implied uniformity. People were said to "conform" in the way that products conformed to one another, each identical. Now computers, at the speed of light, can make distinctions among individuals. Computers can integrate the individual to the whole. So that, in a simple example, some people can choose where to work and when to work. More important...
Cruz's initial reaction to the Harvard environment was to try to conform. "I started listening to white music, like Men at Work, and tried to make white friends to conform. I wanted to be like the others, but it just didn't work...
...fragile, like a strip of celluloid viewed edgewise. Movies are supposed to imitate life, but they merely imitate other movies. If you doubt this, try counting the number of times Shane, The Front Page or The Maltese Falcon have been rehashed. It's often left up to reality to conform to the images we see on our movie or TV screens, sometimes in very perverse ways...
...maintains huge computer databases with information on individuals suspected of having radical, anti-U.S. associations. Meanwhile, the supersecret National Security Agency uses the world's most technologically advanced surveillance techniques to eavesdrop on questionable telephone calls and radio communications abroad and intercept and decode suspicious telex messages. To conform to U.S. privacy laws, the intercepts take place outside U.S. borders. But as the rest of the world painfully knows, determined terrorists are very hard to stop...
...order. They set down in rigidly narrow terms a code which prescribed who would be considered "racially pure" and who were to be classified as "impure." As we all know, this led to the mass extermination of eastern European Jews, racial minorities, Jehovahs Witnesses and others who did not conform to the state's concept of justice. What is often forgotten, however, is that gays were similarly listed among the ranks of the "impure" and tens of thousands also perished in the gas chambers of the Nazi machine. Hitler in his own perverse way evidently saw connections between these groups...