2013-06-07, 09:29 PM
Jamesie Wrote:Except that's how the vast majority of society has survived under as. I honestly (off the top of my head) can't think of a single point in history where those under the elite were not merely tools for the elite. It could possibly only offend me (mind you, a small amount) if it were being used to force the entirety of a population into a very specific mindset, eliminating those who try to dissent.
Why don't I care? I honestly couldn't care less if someone is looking through my history and such. I have a Twitter, I have a Tumblr, I have a Facebook. I'm already a fairly "open' individual (bar my Facebook which is conventionally "closed"). You probably could learn more about me from just looking through my Twitter and Tumblr than you could through my internet history. Want to look through my history? It's a lot of Wikipedia, Tumblr, Twitter, online databases, and some porn interspersed. In this day and age, there is no such thing as privacy. If you so exist in any form on the internet (Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook, 4chan, Twitter, etc.), you have no privacy. Even without a backdoor, people can learn an immense amount about you.
Of course everyone already does it, and of course none of this is new to me; I've known about all of this forever, this is just solid proof of it, that's all. Just because "everyone does it" doesn't make it OK. "That's how it's always been" doesn't make it OK, either; we are supposed to be evolving as a species and as a society, it's our job to fix this ourselves, because it won't fix itself, and the ones doing it certainly won't give it up without a fight.