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[–]SerpensInferna 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If things get that bad, there probably really isn't any 'keeping your head down'. We've seen, in recent history, that millions of people who don't toe the party line can be detained, imprisoned, starved, executed. Living isolated out in the boonies may even be more dangerous than the relative anonymity of a town or a small city.

[–]Ponderer[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I wish I knew more history about this, specifically relating to stuff like Communist regimes. Surely there were some nomads in Siberia or whatever that the Politburo didn't deign to notice?

Living isolated out in the boonies may even be more dangerous than the relative anonymity of a town or a small city.

This is also a concept that interests me. I suppose it depends on how strict things get and what's demanded of the average person.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I guess take a lesson from 1984, if you act as lower class as possible you get away with anything because of low expectations.

In the soviet union the murdering gangsters were considered above middle class political prisoners who said one wrong thing because their crimes were seen as being driven by social injustice so not their fault.