Let’s Get Together — Clue Index for Timeline Investigation

Index of passages in lets-get-together.txt relevant to the Paradigm Threat investigation. Line numbers are approximate; search the full text for exact locations.

Source: Isaac Asimov, “Let’s Get Together,” Infinity (Royal Publications), February 1957 (written 1956).

1. We vs They / East vs West

Line ~	Passage / Theme	Timeline angle
44–91	Century of peace; “Cold War” now “almost a good-natured game”; “No one said the East, or the Reds or the Soviets or the Russians any more… It was much simpler to say We and They”; map: green (Us) vs pink (Them)	We/They as cultural habit; dehumanization via pronoun. Cold War framing as “game.”
81–84	“Over there, They were ‘We’ (in the appropriate language) and We were ‘They.’”	Mirror framing; both sides identical in structure.
100–111	“Formosa… East Germany… last territorial switch”; map colors “neutral” now—was “brooding, bloody red” vs “pure white”	Territorial stalemate; color symbolism.

2. Humanoids and Infiltration

Line ~	Passage / Theme	Timeline angle
204–206	“Ten humanoids among two hundred twenty million humans”; “we don’t know that a humanoid can be differentiated from a human at sight”	Replacements indistinguishable. Infiltration theme.
433–464	They can “reel off the micro-electronic pattern of the brain” onto positronic pathways; “create the replica of a human being complete with personality and memory”; “specific human beings”	Perfect copies—personality, memory. Identity theft at scale.
454–465	Humanoids modeled on “East Europeans” kidnapped during “legitimate seepages” (businessmen, pilots, tourists); “humanoids would then be sent back in their place”	Substitution via border traffic. Trust no one.

3. Bureau of Robotics, Cheyenne, Decentralization

Line ~	Passage / Theme	Timeline angle
48–52	Bureau of Robotics headquartered in Cheyenne; “century-old trend toward decentralization”; Security “still centered” in Washington	Decentralized tech hub; Washington as center.
471–486	“The attack must come from the Bureau of Robotics”; Lynn = “Lynn of Robotics”; responsibility placed “clearly and unequivocally on someone else”	Scapegoat structure; institutional blame.
642–650	Martial law invoked; Lynn “dictator” over his division; “Chalk up one for the beauties of decentralization”	Decentralization enables local dictatorship.

4. The Trap: “Let’s Get Together”

Line ~	Passage / Theme	Timeline angle
617–624	Breckenridge: “Let’s get together and we’ll lick Them.” Lynn realizes: conference = trap—“We’re ordering them to do so. Our scientists visit the other side… ten of those scientists are still there and in their place, ten humanoids are converging on Cheyenne.”	Title as plot—“get together” = gather humanoids for TC bomb. Conference as Trojan horse.
650–665	Ten humanoid scientists invited to All-Science conference; Breckenridge “suggested the conference” and “knows exactly which scientists were invited”; “Did you make sure the right ten were included?”	Insider controls guest list. Controlled opposition.
607–616	Lynn: “What if They intended for us to find out… the humanoids are never supposed to get together, but merely to remain separate in order to give us something to worry about”	False flag / diversion. Paranoia as insight.

5. Breckenridge: Double Agent

Line ~	Passage / Theme	Timeline angle
56–70	Ralph G. Breckenridge: “guileless eyes”; Security from Washington; “hidden knife-edges of the words”	Friendly façade; hidden agenda.
619–665	Lynn deduces Breckenridge is Them; “He warned them”; humanoids explode in transit; Lynn shoots Breckenridge	Confirmed double agent. Infiltration at highest level.
682–698	Four scientists explode (chemical) en route to Cheyenne—humanoids destroyed when trap discovered	Cover-up; evidence destroyed.

6. Russian Robotics, Stalemate, Panic

Line ~	Passage / Theme	Timeline angle
134–142	“They’ve placed a greater proportion of Their effort into robotics… We’re ahead in force-field research or hyper-atomics”; “driving effort… to break the stalemate”	Asymmetric investment; stalemate = peace.
155–178	Thermonuclear weapons made war unthinkable; “competition switched to economic and psychological”; “both afraid the other would make the crucial discovery first”	Mutually assured destruction; psychological warfare.
677–686	Breckenridge had “access to text-material dealing with Russian robotics—in Russian. Top-secret material well in advance”	Russian superiority; insider access.

7. Summary: Highest-Value Clues for Timeline

“Let’s get together” = trap — Conference convenes humanoids for mass destruction. Institutional process as vector.
We/They framing — East/Reds/Soviets/Russians = They. Cold War as “game.” Predictive programming of enemy image.
Humanoid replacement — Indistinguishable copies; kidnapped models; sent back in their place. Trust no one.
Breckenridge = double agent — Security insider is Them. Deep State infiltration.
Russian robotics lead — They ahead; Breckenridge had Russian materials. Asymmetric tech narrative.
Panic as weapon — Lynn: “moral and intellectual destruction… their being here at all”; “panic might do more harm than any one TC bomb.” Psychological warfare.

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