Just another step towards dystopia. After the reformations of german police laws in the last years, starting with Bavaria, I dropped hopes that the combination

Just another step towards dystopia. After the reformations of german police laws in the last years, starting with Bavaria, I dropped hopes that the combination of state of law with civil liberties may be self-sustainable. The drive to sustain themselves is inherent to any institution we forge, and the reward incentives within those institutions simply have _zero_ alignment with civil liberties. The drive to power, relevance, funding and self-sustain goes _directly_ against civil liberties and privacy. If you understand this dynamic, you understand that the rest is merely a matter of time and precedent cases used as justifications for further extensions of the reach. Multiple problems: - inherent dynamics of self-sustain and growth in any institution - people drawn to enforce law-enforcement value stability and security over social ideals, civil liberty and privacy - people drawn to power (i.e. the top of the food chain in those institutions) are mostly sociopaths who will instrumentalize every tool at their disposal to better their own position - democracy has no protection against the populist appeal of what feels like security. politics will go one step further ad infinitum, and anyone who is against measurements which the majority of the population can be sold on as "this is good for you" is consequentially not one of the good guys. It doesn't matter wether all the smart people are extremely vary of this, because smarts don't win elections so what I'm trying to say is, yeah, we're fucked. I guess this is just baked into Europe, as we're not running on the model of "liberty for all". The upside is, we get decent healthcare, I guess. Meh.