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There's a part of USA culture that thrives on cold-war-style paranoia. It's in conflict with another part of our culture that thrives on openness and cooperatio
by OliverJones 7y ago
There's a part of USA culture that thrives on cold-war-style paranoia. It's in conflict with another part of our culture that thrives on openness and cooperation.
The paranoid part of our culture is in ascendance in these decades (partly due to the success of malicious state actors exploiting our openness and cooperation.)
This has been a back-and-forth struggle for much of the USA's history. It's never static. This balance will continue to change in future.
In the meantime, of course, it's helpful to their careers for politicians to stir up fear of ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night.
- geggam 7y agoYou do realize things do go bump in the night ? The world isnt all that nice.
- teddyh 7y agoAnd that’s why the military and intelligence agencies get funding. But what good does it do to get the general public scared and worked up about these issues?
- Nasrudith 7y agoBecause of people like you. The intelligence agencies and their supporters are so goddamned stupid paranoid - they go around fucking with everyone and murdering people because they are out to get them - because they go around fucking with everyone. It is clearly a pattern of lead poisoning - the utterly stupid violence.
- duxup 7y agoConsidering the privacy implications of technology. I think there is good reason for every nation to be paranoid. Planty of articles on HN are all about that.
- oytis 7y agoI honestly believe that there was a lot of paranoia in U.S. during the cold war, but USSR wasn't a ghoulie. Half of Europe (and half of Germany specifically) has been occupied until U.S. won the cold war.