Sunday, September 16, 2007

I see London, I see France, I see your mother in her underpants through her bedroom window as she gets ready for bed.

Curiosity leads to a lot of things. If you are on facebook you can look at the profiles of your “friends” and even check out pictures that they have posted of a vacation or a big party they had. If you find a sexy individual in one of those pictures who you do not know, but wished you did you may click on a link to his/her profile and begin to get to know them in the same way most stalkers get to know their victims. Reality TV does much the same thing for our inner voyeur, we get more information about an individual than we should know. Surveillance and intrusion are not the same idea. However, what is happening is that there are people who have much more power to view than most of us who don’t. What is scary is that those big brothers have the same urges as the common people of the internet and want to make sure we are all “safe” from each other and ourselves. With the level of surveillance that is outright promoted in this country and others there is a diminishing capability for personal privacy/safety and it should scare us much more than it does.

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