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That response is deeply fucked. It also gives further evidence to the fact that most people simply want to live a good life, and are happy to give power to any
by kough 11y ago
That response is deeply fucked.
It also gives further evidence to the fact that most people simply want to live a good life, and are happy to give power to any authority that can promise them that. The thinking here is: the government created the no fly list to catch bad guys, these are bad guys, why aren't they on the list?
- rubyfan 11y agoMy fear with all this is that we all think Snowden was great because it put a spotlight on this stuff. But the reality is Joe Average is perfectly ambivalent and powers in the government can use that to push this far beyond secret programs ostensibly created to protect us from terrorists.
- s_q_b 11y agoI tell people I work for Booz | Allen | Hamilton, and the vast vast majority outside the beltway don't recognize the name at all.
- Umn44 11y ago"It also gives further evidence to the fact that most people simply want to live a good life" The nature of capitalist society produces shitty people, you can't have a culture with a common good if the culture is shit. You need to give people time off enough to be citizens but the nature of the american empire and the culture that runs it is hostile to the people. So you get a fucked up culture of fuck you I got mine. First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ "Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role." Crisis of democracy http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf