"Mack Reynolds - Day After Tomorrow" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reynolds Mack)

"Who's they?" Steve snapped nastily.

“I… I don't know.”

Larry said, "Well, you already told us your father was a member,
Zusanette."

Her eyes went wide. "I did? I shouldn't have said that." But she
evidently took him at his word.

Larry said encouragingly, "We might as well go on. Who else is a
member of this Movement besides your father?"

She shifted in her chair uncomfortably. "I don't know any of their
names."

Steve looked down at the school pass he still held in his hands. He said
to Larry, "I'd better make a phone call."

"Yeah, obviously," Larry said.

Steve left.

Larry said to the girl, "Don't worry about him, Zusanette. Now then,
this Movement. That's kind of a funny name, isn't it? What does it mean?"

She was evidently glad that the less than handsome Steve Hackett had
left the office. Her words flowed more freely. "Well, Daddy says they call it
the Movement rather than a revolution."

An ice cube manifested itself in the stomach of Lawrence Woolford.




V


She was saying, "Because people get conditioned, like, to words. Like
revolution. Everybody is against the word because they all think of killing
and everything, and Daddy says that there doesn't have to be any shooting
or killing or anything like that at all. It just means a fundamental change
in society. And, Daddy says, take the word propaganda. Everybody's got
to thinking that it automatically means lies, but it doesn't at all. It just
means, like, the arguments you use to convince people that what you stand
for is right and it might be lies or not. And, Daddy says, take the word
socialism. So many people have the wrong idea of what it means that the
socialists ought to scrap the word and start using something else to mean
what they stand for."