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spyPods
The world is moving to a risk management style surveillance network inspired by the Gestapo. If we treat everyone like a criminal, is the new world government's ideology then we will eventually catch you. I think there was a novel talking about mass surveillance networks to enforce government policies like a dystopian novel.
You must be a criminal because if you don't have anything to hide why are you worried?
A surveilled society is a polite one.
Either this was an attempt at sarcasm that didn't work or you are a naive kid who lives in a bubble, and if so read some history books and some diverse news sources
He never uses /s and I’ve seen him eat way more downvotes than this. But yes, he’s playing on a Robert A Heinlein quote.
Tag the account. They're doing a bit
Polite is what horrifying brutality wears to an interview.
Go. Fuck. Yourself. Then go read 1984. Then show me your browser history and all the pictures on your phone, since you have nothing to hide.
or pervPods?
The issue of mass surveillance goes far beyond being a pervert, SpyPods definitely captures that better, just isn't as emotionally gripping.
But like calling the Meta glasses "Pervert Glasses" it's not about being technically accurate in your description of the scope of surveillance, it's about making it socially unacceptable. It's why using "weird" worked so well for Waltz - it didn't provide an all encompassing description of why Trump and his ilk were dangerous and bad for the country, it just nailed how to shine a light on how they're socially unacceptable (to rational and sane ppl obvs.)
Yeah I know, our culture sacrifices truth and accuracy in order to emotionally manipulate each other to accept our value system. Its insane, highly coercive and foolish.
It's frustrating I know, but I truly think it's less culture and more just hairless ape brain stuff. Our brains are lazy by evolutionary design and in terms of social communication, it's sadly more effective to aim straight for the emotional limbic system. We should be creatures capable of sustained rational thought, but… that obviously isn't the case and never has been. It's all much worse when you're someone not as prone to emotional appeals, but the trick is to appeal to the emotion and then follow it up with a little bit of the objective reality.