This is sad but true... I remember watching a video of Snowden explaining how smartphones are spying us, not only with cameras but also with microphones.....seems that the orwellian state is here already and this is only the start!!
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Under communism (I no longer make much of a distinction between political regimes, they all ultimately aim for the same thing - complete control), so under communism this control was achieved through people - eyes and ears were all recruited people who have listened and interfered in other people's lives in order to have something to report.
Now, with the advancement of technology, people themselves want to be eavesdropped and monitored - bringing these eyes and ears into their own homes.
Oh, they say it's for our own good - they want to cover our interests in the best way possible by giving us the best ads ... Most people don't realize how disgusting this actually sounds. Quite perverse. Because they watch us in our own homes, doing all sorts of personal things in front of their eyes and ears.
I don't think what Orwell described is something imaginary in the future, or an exaggerated representation of the past. It is something that has always happened. In one form or another. People just don't realize it. Or they don't want to realize it. I also prefer to live, pretending that everything is fine and that I live a normal, private life at home, that I can stay alone with myself at home. Then I turn on the TV, they say a name, FB intercepts it from my phone and immediately sends it to me as a friend suggestion or advertising (this is about the dimensions of microphones that I experienced recently). But I don't really want and I don't need such intervention.
P.S. I'm glad you're back. It's so sad when you follow someone on this platform and they suddenly disappear.
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This the most pathetic of all and another arguement that i often hear is ..."why you worry so much? do you have anything that you need to hide?"
Of course i have...it called personal life you morrons!!
And then I feel there is no hope for humanity when opinions like these are expressed and I try to convince myself that maybe a higher - superior power will somehow, someday sort things out and bring justice to the world
because I need to believe in hope, it's in my nature I think and it works as a self-protection mechanism in order to keep strugling in this filthy world
p.s Yes, some everyday necessities have made me reduce my activity on the platform but I will try to be more active :)
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Of course, we all need hope. It is not faith but hope that sustains us in this life. And I often say that aliens must come to save us (or at least something outside of this earth) because I have long since lost faith in human reason, in people's ability to think, and in their common sense...
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