Hello,
I was with my brother and his group of friends, and one of his friends was talking about various drugs. My brother told him, “Shut up, you’re going to put us on a watchlist,” and he said it in a serious tone. It felt pretty dystopian when he said that; honestly, it was a bit eerie, mostly because he’s being controlled and self-censoring without anyone there, and he seems to be aware of the freedom he’s giving up, yet he continues to act this way. I’ve talked to my brother about privacy and why it’s important many times, but he would rather live this type of controlled life and doesn’t care because “they already know everything about me anyway.” He’s in his early 20s.
Has anyone else had moments like this?
Are you kidding. Does not matter if its measured in decades, years, months, weeks, days. The slide from 80 to 2000 was practically negligable compared to 2000 to 2010 and the last decade has me yearning for those days of optimism. I think it may start feeling hour to hour soon. My neighbor was asking about help for their smart tv. when I was young if you talked about government listening devices in the tv you were likely paranoid schizophrenic. Now people just buy corporate spying devices for their home and pocket and just shrug.