![]() “Basically you have to choose your poison-no system is particularly amazing,” she says. Roth says the United States is closer to becoming a surveillance state than we’d like to think, and that researching all the ways in which our devices are tracking us has made her increasingly paranoid. But for everyone who benefits, there’s someone who doesn’t.” “But there are some people who have communist nostalgia, because for them it maybe wasn’t so bad during that time-maybe it was even better. “Even now, if you go to the Christmas Market in Romania, they sell little magnets with Ceaușescu’s face on it, and this man was brutal and horrible to a lot of people,” Roth says. ![]() The book was also influenced by Roth’s frequent trips to visit her husband’s family in Romania, a country that was ruled by the communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu until 1989. “It’s appealing to know that you’re doing the right thing, and you’re doing everything that you’re supposed to be doing, to a certain type of personality.” ![]() ![]() ![]() “I was definitely one of those students who loved to be rewarded in school, and I was always good at tests, and I was always well-behaved,” she says. Roth says it was all too easy for her to imagine how Sonya might enjoy being constantly monitored and rewarded for her good behavior. Poster Girl imagines the ultimate surveillance state, where every action is recorded and judged by ubiquitous ocular implants. ![]()
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