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"No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up."

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• nescioquid 5y ago
  Your quotation can't be extolled enough. As a mere undergraduate in the early '90s, reading about Omnivore (and later Carnivore and later Total Information Awareness and its subsequent refinements) and the ineffectual vituperations against them, I thought that the retrenchment was only apparent, a moving back to take yet another run at the dream of omniscient preemption and thereby control. Today, nothing dies. Everything simply becomes more subtle. There is no single head to urge into the guillotine. Is there a way out, or be there no exit? What's left to do? Knock over one's king man on the board? How's that for cynicism? edit: for the down-voting Panglosians: give me your reason rather than mouse-clicks.
  • CRConrad 5y ago
    > Today, nothing dies. Is this you summing up how your entire comment evokes a Charlie Stross novel?