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“…it’s hard to resist your own substance, you’d like to stop all this, give yourself time to think about it and listen without difficulty to your heartbeat, but it’s too late for that. This thing can never stop. This enormous steel box is on a collision course; we, inside it, are whirling madly with the machines and the Earth. All together, along with the thousands of little wheels and hammers that never strike at the same time, that make noises which shatter one another, some so violent that they release a kind of silence around them, which makes you feel a little better. You give into noise as you give in to war. As the machines you let yourself go with the two three ideas that are wobbling about at the top of your head. And that’s the end. From then on everything you look at, everything you touch is hard. And everything you still manage to remember more or less becomes as rigid as iron and loses its savor in your thoughts.” Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
“It’s not that I like the empire—I hate it—but there’s nothing I can do about it right now.” Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
2 comments:
The most dangerous aspect of these new policies is the precedent they set. Sure, at each incremental step you could justify each policy: "they don't seem so dangerous if you really think about it" or at the very least you grumble about it a few weeks and you're over it and have made life-adjustments to accomodate it. It isn't the hidden identity chips that worry me the most; after all, all they contain is "name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth and digitized photograph of the passport holder.", right? Doesn't sound bad really. Until you realize that, with each new precedent established, it becomes more possible to entertain even more dubious violations of our rights, which weren't possible before, but with each push of the envelope with new precedent, become more easily accomplished (and more acceptable to the public too.)
e.g. 'a' directly to 'e' would incur the indignation of the public and would never be accepted, but 'a' to 'b' only seems like an inconvenience to everyone, once 'b' becomes comfortable, the jump to 'c' fails to elicit much attention, etc. and before you know it we're all at 'e' or worse eventually. I can already see it happening: we'll go at this pace until
30 years from now we all collectively look around and realize we are living in a police state and wondering how the hell it all happened.
until we get to zzzzzzzz---the perpetual bubblebath like the matrix people--pickled in rubbermaid wombs--human ipods running on Windows Life for Dummies XP
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