Yesterday, 05:48 PM
(Yesterday, 11:45 AM)Duchess Wrote: I watched! Thank you! This kind of thing should scare the crap out of Americans, but many, if not most, will have the attitude of, I haven't done anything wrong, I don't care what they know about me. I'm not one of those people.
If they weren't expanding the definition of "anti-Semitism" and making it a criminal offense, while at the same time eliminating due process for the masses and reintroducing slave labor, it wouldn't be as big of a deal.
All of this was made possible because we didn't vigorously defend our right to privacy, and we didn't defend it because consumerism altered our perception of the world and ourselves, to the point that most of us place wants ahead of needs. Privacy is a human need, the lack of which results in chronic stress and a decline in mental health. We become overwhelmed, but we're conditioned to think that's a normal state of being. The upshot of this is we're not in much of a position to defend ourselves against predators like Thiel and Ellison. There's very little that isolated individuals can do. So we either band together and resist as best we can, try and run to somewhere safe (good luck), play dead and hope the danger passes (good luck), or try to appease the psychopaths, who don't see us as human beings (good luck).
If enough people choose the first option we have a pretty decent chance of winning because we have the numbers. They have technology and fear but they're exposed -- the masks are off. We need to take advantage of that while we have the chance because time is running out.