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I don't know where this is going. Perhaps prepping for the global warming riots. Is there a way out of surveillance?
by ghoda 5y ago
I don't know where this is going. Perhaps prepping for the global warming riots.
Is there a way out of surveillance?
- TheChaplain 5y agoVote. Or be more active in politics.
- agilob 5y agoand if that doesn't work wait 4 or 5 more years and vote again, hope for the better!
- hulitu 5y agoToo late.
- sweettea 5y agoVoting is how this mess started... how is voting harder going to fix what voting created? Nothing short of a common national ethos of trust in an almost unremovable leader can solve this problem. A leader who can listen to experts and make a choice, even if unpopular, without fear of next election and without the need to aggrandize more power and wealth.
- soco 5y agoThat's the kind of rationalization which got Europe into WW2...
- mLuby 5y ago"Fear of the next election" is one of the few things that keeps elected leaders in line. You want a wise, just dictator for life, and maybe you luck out and get one who reigns beneficently for a few decades, but who's to say their successor will be as good, or the next one, and on and on until you inevitably get a Stalin. Put another way: if the leader dies, and heir A spends all their effort on ruling effectively, and heir B spends all their effort on beating heir A to the throne, how can heir A succeed? You'd need metrics for being a good ruler which are immune to Goodhart's Law. Given that—over time—power inevitably centralizes and inevitably is abused, those tendencies must be counterbalanced; or else power must be regularly reset by more crude means.
- umanwizard 5y agoVoting is already mandatory in Australia.
- cfcfcf 5y agoVoting is mandatory and it has bi-partisan support.
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- tick_tock_tick 5y agoThe Australian government has always dreamed fondly of China's control over there population and has been working tireless to get there.
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- swayson 5y agoTake the red pill?
- maerF0x0 5y agoWhat does this mean, and how does one take it? Googling it comes up with misogny and a documentary of the same name.
- swayson 5y agoOh sorry, yes it the matrix reference.
- maerF0x0 5y agoRight, but like besides a reference, is there something you'd suggest as an action? (which represents taking the redpill)
- hatware 5y agoThe "Red-pill" in the Matrix signifies an action which one cannot go back on. It is an action which requires the user to shatter their built-up version of reality forever (signified by the the blue-pills they have been taking all along). We need more people to challenge their view of reality, and accept that things may not be as happy and comfortable as we want them to be for the security of our futures and our children's futures. And no, I don't mean "global warming is destroying the ability for life to live" wise, I mean in terms of how much our politicians and public servants are truly serving us at this point. Voting for lifelong politicians more or less got us here, the red pill is accepting that these people may have always had more sinister plans in mind than we thought.
- swayson 5y agoCouldn't have described it better. Well put @hatware
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- 908B64B197 5y ago> Is there a way out of surveillance? Vote with your feet. Divest out of Australia. Make sure there's a brain drain out of the country.
- koolba 5y agoWouldn’t a brain drain lead to even dumber laws?
- elzbardico 5y agoOther kind of dumb laws. Authoritaranism is a special kind of dumbness historically associated with really smart people.
- raxxorrax 5y agoAuthoritarianism is an expression of fear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality disclaimer: I distance myself from the groups currently associated with these schools of thought. I also think the English version of this article is lacks scientific savoir faire. The gender inequality part is empirically and historically wrong. edit: To be honest the whole article is trash, better read it here (Psychological theory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm
- dragonelite 5y agoNot the problem anymore for the brains that fled.
- tshaddox 5y agoKinda weird for the attitude toward governments allegedly violating freedom to be “it’s okay as long as it doesn’t affect me.”
- dragonelite 5y ago
- crocodiletears 5y agoJoin the bureaucracy executing it. Make the experience of being surveiled as onerous and intrusive as possible so that the fever can break sooner.
- charbonneau 5y agoYou can take a man out of surveillance but you can't take surveillance out of a man
- rtkwe 5y agoI bet they're pretty worried about unrest from climate change. Most of the continent is pretty hot and arid already and it's not going to get better when temperatures start rising.
- indy 5y agoIf there are riots, then a worldwide crash of the financial markets seems like the more likely cause
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- ceilingcorner 5y agoBeing a gray man is probably the realistic solution for most people.
- helloworld11 5y agoWhat do you mean by this?
- eplanit 5y agoAustralia's penal colony origins are beyond ironic anymore.