Too late for Michelle?She gets too close to the truth and is eventually assimilated herself before she can warn her friend Ruthanne, a mother of a black family, who are about to move into the area too. The novel ends with Joanne strolling down an isle of a supermarket after being fully mentalised by the husbands and with her friend - the black mother - Ruthanne poised, next in line for re-programming.
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A work of fiction perhaps, but it bears a terrifying similarity to the transformation of Presidents' First Wives from independent career minded woman to lifeless obsequious droids; tolerant of their husbands numerous affairs, lacking in opinion and with countenances moulded from volcanised rubber.
It's clear to even an amateur cyberneticist that Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and even Cindy McCain have all undergone this same metamorphosis. Was the novel the inspiration behind this programme of re-programming? Or has this been going on for decades and was in fact the inspiration for the novel?
Was Ira Levin clairvoyant, some sort of God? His novel ends with the arrival of Ruthanne, the first black mother to move into the town. Someone needs to send a copy of this novel to Michelle Obama before it's too late. Perhaps it is already too late. One thing is clear people, there is nothing more terrifying than reality immitating art and also Laura's Bush.
Cindy McCain's transmogrification
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