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That being said, all the stuff about censorship and getting arrested for "treason" (basically for a political joke at the bar) I think you didn't get it right.
by Anotheroneagain 3y ago
That being said, all the stuff about censorship and getting arrested for "treason" (basically for a political joke at the bar)
I think you didn't get it right. The joke is that they go out of their way to not say anything offensive, knowing that the situation is tense, but they get arrested anyway.
- pdimitar 3y agoStrange that you're saying this because that's exactly how I understood it: people were extremely mindful of what they're saying but even with that you had "agents" in disguise who really stretched the definition of "treason", many times over, just to be able to do a few arrests daily. In the books it was also shown that the mere fact of singing along a song that praised their emperor was also grounds for being arrested (which was quite absurd because praising that guy was a requirement anyway).
- Anotheroneagain 3y agoThe book starts with the event that lead to the war getting announced. It's the pre war paranoia, not state censorship.