Marathe on the temptation: Us of Québec have never felt this temptation — "Us of Québec’s cause, we have…"

The serial's org-level distinction, stated by Marathe: where the Americans lose data-analysts to the Entertainment out of appetite, "Us of Québec's cause, we have never felt this temptation for the Entertainment... But we respect its power." The A.F.R. relate to the samizdat as a weapon, not a lure — "The samizdat is not to be played crazily about with... We too have lost persons. It is serious." The nationalist cause is precisely what immunizes the insurgent against the pleasure-death: a people organized around a total political object cannot be seduced by a total private one. The theme's core asymmetry — appetite-nation vs. cause-nation — in two lines. (The tradecraft/concealment and the addiction-temptation register are surveillance-disguise's / addiction-recovery's; landed here is the Québec-cause-vs-U.S.-appetite politics.)