by HappySysiphus, Unknown News
Oct. 7, 2005
What is the cure for a country lost in a black jungle of lies, lies, lies?
Total Surveillance on all government/corporate officials/celebrities!
In the boardroom, in the courtroom, in the bedroom, in
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every fucking room. 24/7. Every ticking second accounted for and posted on the Internet. For Ever.
It would be the Big Brotherhood of the People; Step into the public sphere, feel the white hot beam of true public scrutiny.
Talk about balancing out the advantages of incumbency...
Come to think of it, maybe what a species of animal so gripped by the clutches of its own misrepresentations of itself to itself truly needs is the global application of this technology EVERYWHERE on Earth.
How easily would rumors spread if we could just 'go to the tapes' at any computer to instantly check the facts?
How long would our world famous, periodic witch hunts last if the full behavior of the accused, the hunters and their witnesses was exposed fully for all to see?
How long would it continue, this tedious human exercise of pretending to "fit in" while thinking everyone else is actually the way we pretend to be?
How long could everyone stay in character and stop masturbating?
What sort of people would emerge as the leaders of such a society?
How easy would it be to fake your record, your behavior, your character before taking office?
How quickly and easily would you be thrown out on your ass if you double crossed us after taking office?
How soon would the stress of pretending to conform to the old ideas of "Normal" under the new cameras give way to sorting out a new way to live with your neighbor WITHOUT lying?
Would people tune in to watch you banging your wife? Undoubtedly, but what other barometer is capable of finding the true measure of a man?
Would a people living in glass houses throw stones? Yes, but not without paying the consequences.
Fear not the future symmetry of TOTAL SURVEILLANCE. Fear greatly the asymmetry of a Big Brother on the high top of the mountain where no one can see him. Fear a truth hidden at the bottom of the lake where no one can see. Fear having your own ass sandwiched in between, exposed to attack by those struggling to maintain a false reputation.
Fear the present, not the future.
Remember, there's almost certainly a computer in the basement of the Pentagon that knows you are reading this.
Wouldn't you like to know for sure?
© by the author.
What do you think?
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How easily would rumors spread if we could just 'go to the tapes' at any computer to instantly check the facts?
How long would our world famous, periodic witch hunts last if the full behavior of the accused, the hunters and their witnesses was exposed fully for all to see?
How long would it continue, this tedious human exercise of pretending to "fit in" while thinking everyone else is actually the way we pretend to be?
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