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When I moved to Hawaii, that was my first time in small-town America and my first time living on an island. It was impossible to be alone and everyone knows ev
by yieldcrv 2y ago
When I moved to Hawaii, that was my first time in small-town America and my first time living on an island.
It was impossible to be alone and everyone knows everything if you have any friend group. That bothered me, at first.
For the first… month… I felt like I had to be on my best, most generic, behavior. It made my think twice about hookups and which women to pursue. I distinctly remember being in the backseat of a car playing with glowsticks with a lady, and I was just like “nah.” and left. For superficial reasons along with not being that interested, but thinking about the social consequences more than I would in a big city. I would have made out at least otherwise.
But after that I went super polarizing and things got way more fun. More partying, more raunchiness, more visibly. Some of my other tech transplant friends had an issue, but the far more attractive people I wanted loved it.
and that's why I don’t think constant surveillance will have that specific outcome. Maybe less murder and assault? But people might define themselves and self segregate more greatly than before
- autoexec 2y agoLiving in a place where everyone knows everyone else generally isn't a problem until it becomes one at which point you're screwed and could be forced to move. It's also massively different from having your every movement recorded, kept on file forever, and analyzed remotely by AI bots working for total strangers looking to make endlessly growing profits and with reach so great that moving away is no longer an option.
- yieldcrv 2y ago> until it becomes one at which point you're screwed yeah that was the other weird side of things, the community is nice but each one has this one gatekeeper to everything, and if they're temperamental you get ostracized from everything which means that even people pleasing everyone isn't a good social strategy because you had to choose a niche group anyway if you wanted favor in any regard > It's also massively different from having your every movement recorded, kept on file forever I wonder how people will adapt to that then. I disagree with the quote in the headline
- potato3732842 2y agoI'm far more worried about the unholy union between government and big business than I am about either alone.
- rightbyte 2y ago> playing with glowsticks ... is this an eupheism for something?
- yieldcrv 2y agoits not
- cocok 2y agoThe mass surveillance in question will likely lead not to an "everyone knows everyone" society like that in your story, but to a "the government and the big corporations know everyone" one.