evolution_epidemic

power

There's a blossoming idea out there that it would be good to -be more like England and- have cameras posted everywhere in public. Like on every traffic light or street light.
Apparently no one thinks with common sense or understands that power corrupts or reads anymore. Has anyone read 1984? Orwell's right on the money. "The 'liberals' think it will invade their privacy" a radio talk show host said. Ok who's been feeding her stupid pills? Actually i feel bad for her, clearly she's as naive as the people who think we went to war in Iraq because the Al Quaeda (from Afghanistan*) are responsible for 9/11. Some people will believe anything they hear if it's got a stamp of approval from a "higher power" in office.

Clearly i'm angry. But let me elaborate as to why i'm so passionate on this topic.

I was too young to know him but my grandfather used to say,"Common sense isn't so common anymore."

Almost every civilization in history has a leader who gets drunk with power and starts to make incredibly short-sighted decisions before they fall. It is human nature to look out for oneself. It is way too common for a human in power to abuse it to his advantage, no matter what the loss for others is. Sometimes it takes months to see it, sometimes years and decades. I'm not here to write about history except for the fact that some people are ignoring the history we have repeated and are bound to repeat. again and again. until we blow ourselves up or a rock from outerspace starts Earth over for us. (NASA is currently building an aircraft that can hypothetically land on an unknown moving rock and sample it. just for fun.)

So to the people who say cameras will tag serial killers and rapists and lower crime: I say, that's how they'll get the rally going for the cameras. Ra Ra Ra! Besides what have you got to hide? Then, inevitably, it will fall into the wrong hand(s) [everyone has their price] and then you'll only have yourself to blame for how much harder you made your life when traffic tickets are mailed in to you and the mayor gets exposed going to a strip club because he refused to pay a bribe. And on that note, a word from jamiroquai:
Oh yeah, what we’re living in, let me tell ya
It’s a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big that should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we’ll be doing for us
And I’m giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can’t see, I can’t breathe No more will we be
And nothing’s going to change the way we live
’Cause we can always take but never give
And now that things are changing for the worse
See, it’s a crazy world we’re living in
And I just can’t see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these
Future’s made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have
For useless, twisting, our new technology
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground
And I’m thinking what a mess we’re in
Hard to know where to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made
And now every mother can choose the colour of her child
That’s not nature’s way
Well that’s what they said yesterday
There’s nothing left to do but pray
I think it’s time I found a new religion
It’s so insane
To synthesize another strain
There’s something in these
Futures that we have to be told....
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground

posted by Tiffany @ 6:46 AM