Big Brother is Watching You

Read This. If I know the US media, this won't become too big of a deal. The 51% of the population that actually voted (fuck you who didn't vote at all) for our current leader are going to say, "Well we need to do this to protect ourselves from terrorists." Fuck terrorists, and fuck your cowardice. We are safe. We are safer than almost any other country or civilization in history. The only thing that makes us unsafe are backward, power hugging war mongers who use fear to fulfill their sexual drug addiction to power; and the cowards who fail to realize that their fears are predicated on the people they vote for and the television they follow. We are blind people. We are blind.

As we vault into the next paradigm of our existence there will be a handful of issues (cultural, legal, geopolitical) that will shatter the realities that we live in today. Whether that be for the better or for the worse remains to be seen. One of these issues is privacy. This is by far one of the most complex, confusing, conflicted, and necessary rights protected by the constitution and bill of rights (don't even get me started on the penumbra arguments, gosh Kip!). As technology evolves and an individuals rights are slowly choked away under the guise of freedom (i.e. fighting non-freedom supporters, aka terrorists), the right to privacy becomes more and more important to the fabric of American society. The abrogation of privacy is the like the 8th level of Dante's Inferno, next is the suffocation of free expression, resulting in complete tyranny (or Hell to Dante, and China to you stupid rational people).

"Oh thats never gonna happen." Thats what they said in Pompeii. "You're being paranoid, we're too powerful." Exactly, too powerful, like the Athenians, they said that too. "There's no way that we'll ever subject ourselves to one ruler when we all know that it's a bad idea." That's what Germans said before their country went to shit and decided to follow an art student flunky. In the book the The Tipping Point, by Malcom Gladwell, he discusses how ideas and things change rapidly, like epidemics. Ideas, viruses, and the status quo have a quasi-demensional, temporal point that pushes things over the edge. Gladwell describes how tiny little changes to the smallest details can propogate an epidemic (whether it be a virus or an idea). The law is a static insitution which evolves slowly, resistes change, and can only be changed by people who have the power/money/desperate story to effect that change. Thus, any change in law in the realm of privacy, or free-speech, or even copyright protection can create a ripple or tidal wave of change (not in the laws themselves, but) in how things bureaucratically operate.

Talk about protecting the constitution.