When your life’s meaning is defined by your antagonists
A paranoid anti-government type is convinced that the state is recording every moment of his life - everything he says, everything he thinks, everything he does goes right into the Federal log. The government keeps invasive files on everyone, but their file on him is especially extensive because of his “dangerous” notions about freedom.
Knowing that he has no privacy tortures him to no end; he hates trying to force phony obedient thoughts into his head just to avoid immediate arrest and torture. That’s why he gladly takes part in a revolution of like-minded paranoid people who miraculously topple this tyrannous, invincible police state.
After the revolution, the triumphant freedom warriors bust open the government files so they can see what the Feds had been saying about them. Our hero, like the other revolutionaries, is shocked to find that his file just has his social security number, his tax info, and a few other odds and ends.
All along, he’d secretly been wishing the government was recording that stuff for posterity.
5 years ago