It's been over 20 years since I read this, but I agree that some things stay with you. I found it eerily prescient even then. Nowadays it's just downright scary!

As an aside, one thing I find interesting about politics in supposedly democratic countries today is that there is so little difference between the major parties. There is no real choice for people ... whoever you vote for is going to end up selling you out to international corporations so I think people feel that there isn't much point. To a certain extent, I understand why we have large scale apathy.

What concerns me too is that if anyone actually came forward with decent representative policies, they would probably be assassinated or otherwise removed or discredited. After all, we can't have a little thing like citizen's rights standing in the way of profits!

This might have sounded paranoid once but sadly it is now accepted as "just the way things are" by pretty much everyone.

Now I've got to get my hands on this and start reading it again right away. I've procrastinated long enough!