Someone I know said he doesn’t care about surveillance because he has nothing to hide. This is a late 20s Midwestern guy. The subject came up when I mentioned t

Someone I know said he doesn’t care about surveillance because he has nothing to hide. This is a late 20s Midwestern guy. The subject came up when I mentioned that Apple is going to be scanning our phones from now on on behalf of the United States government. We are fucked. I am reminded of Elon Musk remarking that people in China seem very motivated and grounded compared to Americans because Americans have had it too good for too long. I have felt the same way for many years. Americans today haven’t experienced a depression, a real war, a dictatorship or a collapse of government. They haven’t experienced anything besides being the largest, richest first-in-the-queue country and they are in for the rudest awakening in human history.