the last time i’ve seen such a drive for privacy was during the USSR, where the state wiuld actually kill or at least torture you. so you had to hide everything

the last time i’ve seen such a drive for privacy was during the USSR, where the state wiuld actually kill or at least torture you. so you had to hide everything from them. this led to a broken society, where everyone lied to eachother over the most basic things (e.g. going out, eating a loaf of bread etc). that’s one of the reasons i escaped to the western world, where transparency was the norm, where no one cared what you had for breakfast, where there was no real threat to your life due to over exposure. fast forward to today, and it feels like the west is developing into the USSR, but without the threats to life, just the “hide everything about you” part. it also feels like a partly nativist europe vs the rest of the world. now it seems i have to escape yet again to parts of asia where they don’t worry about stuff like this. edit: at the last minute i’m reminded that this is just the HN bubble, and outside Europe people still act normal and don’t care about this stuff.