the Entertainment as war-trigger: the weaponization science — macro-politically lethal — "For the samizdat Entertainment’s allure to…"
For the samizdat Entertainment’s allure to be macro-politically lethal, the ninth digit of extremities had to come off as quickly and willingly as the second.
Context
The insurgency's science given its political goal: Broullîme's digit-per-viewing field-test on the captured radio engineer aims "to confirm with statistical assurance the Subject's desire for viewing... as incapable of satiation" — no "index of diminishing satisfaction as in the econometrics of normal U.S.A. commodities." The criterion is explicitly political: "for the samizdat Entertainment's allure to be macro-politically lethal, the ninth digit... had to come off as quickly and willingly as the second." The A.F.R. must prove the weapon works at population scale, an appetite that never satiates, before it can be aimed at a nation. (The orthopedic-saw test method is surveillance-disguise's / violence; landed here is the macro-political weaponization goal.)