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People are scared of exploding airplanes, but not of turning the whole world into prison from which there is no escape.
by hyko 6y ago
People are scared of exploding airplanes, but not of turning the whole world into prison from which there is no escape.
- hnarn 6y ago> turning the whole world into prison from which there is no escape This kind of alarmist sentiment is meaningless without elaboration. It could equally be a marxist criticism of wage-slavery as it could be a neo-liberal critique of the surveillance state.
- hyko 6y agoIt’s not a Marxist or Neo-liberal critique, just an observation. People are (rightly) viscerally afraid of dying in a fireball, but are far less animated about the horrors of living as a non-person, without the right to privacy, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, the presumption of innocence, due process in law, and just all round basic human dignity. The right to life is an important one, but it can and should be upheld without setting fire to all the others. Worth just reminding everyone that those rights exist whether the powerful of the day want to undermine or uphold them; they exist everywhere in the universe including airports. They exist for all people regardless of their religion or ethnicity. We’re not fooled into forgetting about these immutable rights just because someone acts as if that they have the authority to negate them. They most certainly do not.