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Montag is the screen name of a cranky old guy living in southern New Mexico. After obtaining two degrees in English, thus ensuring future professional unemployment, he's spent his working life in the technical trades, and his retirement grumbling about morons in government, catching up on our shared history, and trying to work out a grand unified field theory of conservatism's roots in aristocracy.
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Both services, in effect and action, sought to preserve and expand the influence of an economic elite by using the tools of empire (it's no accident that the CIA's casual moniker is "The Company"). Both saw enforcement of domestic stability as essential to preserving the system that made wealth accumulation by the few possible, and both governments used similar methods overseas to control indigenous populations and resources.