“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, December 27, 2013

NSA vs Target

"It's cool that my local department store knows that I'm pregnant before I do. But it's not cool for the NSA to know that I'm planning to blow you up."

Discuss.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good point!
That's all I got.
I'll give up my i.d. for a crap scarf, which I refuse to see is the chain to the nation state in all manner of shitty ways....

Nick Guetti said...

A very good piece of film art that deals with this is the TV mini-series "The Last Enemy". Although it deals mostly with government tracking, the main character makes the point early on that our lives are so permeated with tracking that it hardly matters what the government does. I sort of have to uncomfortably agree. If we're uncomfortable with being spied on, we should be uncomfortable with being spied on: it shouldn't matter who's doing it.

cgerrish said...

All of these narrators are unreliable. Me included.

Anonymous said...

It's not cool that my department store knows x, y, z about me. To hell with all that. Have some guts, people.

Anonymous said...

It's not cool for my department store to know x, y, z about me. to hell with all that. Have some guts, people.