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We can be both 'right' and 'wrong' at the same time, because the world isn't absolute. Different interests apply their forces, push and pull. Sometimes their
by hyperman1 3y ago
We can be both 'right' and 'wrong' at the same time, because the world isn't absolute. Different interests apply their forces, push and pull. Sometimes their interests align.
I have no problem believing advertisers lie to their bosses, they do it to everyone else and assuming they don't do it when their interests are served best of all is not an extra excuse.
I have also no problem believing todays intelligences see a lovely buildup of information, and decide they want that pile to grow and they want access.
Surely rich corporations see dollar signs selling access to this info, and every possible use of it must be looked at at every angle by teams of spindoctors andthink tanks.
In fact, I can belizve Google and Facebook accidentally found out they sat on a mountain of info. While not the initial plan, they decided to use and grow it because why not.
Undoubtly there are 100's more of these small stories. The world just goes on, and the human brain finds meaning in the complex random patterns that appear, self reinforce, and disappear again. The biggest illusion of all is there is a story to it. Some of us might be more powerfull than others, but no person or group is that influential on its own.
- mike_hock 3y agoThat's obviously true. And the NSA has quite a comfortable budget to allow it to push and pull as it pleases. So obviously I agree, except for the subliminal message that just because the NSA doesn't have absolute power and doesn't get its way every single time, we should just ignore it, don't worry and just go home.