Same affect achieved with social media. But instead of coercing us with barbed wire and machine gun nests... they watch us drug ourselves with dopamine-jerking

Same affect achieved with social media. But instead of coercing us with barbed wire and machine gun nests... they watch us drug ourselves with dopamine-jerking apps that let us feel "connected" to people we aren't really all that connected to... and ah, that tingly feeling every time someone likes a photo we've shared, or a comment we made. Or "swipes right" on us. And the beauty is that these days, the guardians of State Security don't even have to do anything for all that metadata, all these photos, likes and heartfelt confessions of lust and ardour to be neatly digitized... they just have to sit back and (carefully) suck it all up. Except this time around their "cabinets" are about 850 million times bigger: http://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html http://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html