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In fairness, it's not McCarthyism, it's Machiavelli-ism. Old Mac drew the blueprint and princes have been implementing it for 500 years. The only difference now is the iPhone, which reports a level of detail that used to require a 1-to-1 ratio of spies to humans.

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Thanks, polistra. Yup, biggest difference is digital scale -- the real enemy of the people.

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