tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post8029996336574604639..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Snowden - The MovieStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-24363705794669074082016-09-17T05:59:41.320-08:002016-09-17T05:59:41.320-08:00Aah, admitting one was wrong... pretty much the pi...Aah, admitting one was wrong... pretty much the pivotal point of much great literature -- King Lear, Pride and Prejudice spring to mind -- (that, and redemption) but sadly not of fearful people, religious extremists or politics.<br /><br />After decades of an American right-wing owned/Christianist media pimping a culture of fear, why are we surprised at the rise of Trump and his ilk?<br /><br />I'm not, but appalled that it doesn't seem to be able to be turned around. Trump now "bullish" in the polls!? (Sorry, but I still think Sanders would have been the antidote, rallying young people and real liberal progressives to have something to hope for, for without hope the people perish.)<br /><br />Barbara Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463074148195784152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-20877903814695586032016-09-17T04:42:55.274-08:002016-09-17T04:42:55.274-08:00Read a line the other day:
"...we had all ...Read a line the other day: <br /><br />"...we had all the privacy of a goldfish." <br /><br />We are aware of this, but like the goldfish can't do anything but keep swimming, living as authentic and meaningful a life as we can -- "...as unpaid extras in a movie set. The politicians are the actors, but the true directors -- you never see. The show is run from the wings, not under the spotlights." (David Mitchell, 9 Dream, 2001)<br /><br />I think Snowden understood this and just wanted everybody to wake up. But it's nicer just to be in our warm, safe bowl.<br /> <br />At best he won't be thanked, at worst, he'll be heavily prosecuted for it. Nobody likes to be shown to be a manipulated fool.<br /><br />That Snowden may now be being manipulated is another issue.Barbara Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463074148195784152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-15998536327331612452016-09-16T22:45:23.571-08:002016-09-16T22:45:23.571-08:00I wanted to write a simple, short reply. I couldn&...I wanted to write a simple, short reply. I couldn't. I have 2 or 3 major points and then so many diverging thoughts on these that a blog-world reply wouldn't be welcome. I will leave it to my main concern, and it isn't about this one person. Snowden. It is about privacy, however. <br /><br />I have (as I believe many have) begun to act and live as if my thoughts could be used against me at any time. I use my name in my electronic dealings as metadata aggregators work everywhere on the net. I have surrendered (almost all) of the notion of my privacy not only to governments, but commercial banks and the finance sector, the health and charitable sector, and that most omnipresent force in our lives today, social media. Our phones track our movements, our computer cameras can be controlled.<br /><br />Snowden did help me become aware of this. Where I differ is in believing I can fight it. And I do see it getting worse in the future as we explore memory augmentation (bio interface with computers) preceded by genetic coding in reproduction with the necessary data-keeping for these human signature areas.<br /><br />Our species is finally creating the world of social order we first employed to survive so long ago, now perhaps, too well. In my own small way, I am arriving at that point that sensing mortality brings to one: that life is maybe best left to those who must deal with what we have created.<br /><br />That’s a moment when I take a walk to clear my head of such thoughts, leaving my mobile phone at home, aware surveillance cameras watch me for public safety, and oddly feeling safe “they” don't yet trace my thoughts whilst I walk.<br /><br />Yet.<br />Jacob Dugan-Brausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287631724339961459noreply@blogger.com